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Mid-range Androids and the Causeway commute

Flagship timings from the office Wi-Fi do not describe the hour between Taman Molek and the checkpoint.

A view from a car on a busy road

Johor Bahru product teams often test on the same class of phone the founders carry. Those phones are fast, recently charged, and usually on good Wi-Fi. The people who actually open the app at 7:40 on the way toward Woodlands are on two-year-old Androids, with a handful of other apps waking the radio, on a cell that is busy.

A performance review here is less about laboratory frames-per-second and more about whether the home screen appears before the driver needs the phone back in a bag. We watch cold start, the first list, and what the app does when it is backgrounded during a patchy hand-off between towers.

Polling every few seconds in the background is a common finding. So is a hero video that has no still fallback. So is an unbounded image carousel from a CMS.

Bring one mid-range Android that you already support, with a realistic set of other apps installed. We will use it. The flagship can stay in the drawer until the polish pass.

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