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First off, you CAN install a full Linux distro on your phone; in fact you have more than one choice (Canonical/Ubuntu and Debian, as I recall, too lazy to check - lol). With a portable keyboard and a video cable (or a monitor/TV that supports DLNA and a DLNA-enabled phone, as most are these days) you can even use it as a decent Linux development platform, if you care to. And yes, it still works as a phone. Before you laugh, remember that most recent phones are AT LEAST as powerful as a 3-4 year old laptop ^^' .
Second, yes, Android DOES tend to slow down over time (especially older versions), but this is easily explainable, and often avoidable. The causes are usually twofold:
- Low free system RAM. Every program you install takes up at least some of this storage, leaving less working RAM. Try deleting a few apps, and/or running a RAM optimizer every so often.
- Android fragmentation. More specifically, apps that are optimized for current Android are less efficient when running on an older version of the OS.
Both of these issues are addressed with newer versions of Android, but the 2nd (optimization) is what it is; you have the flexibility of keeping that old device (yay ANdroid!), but after a while, its age WILL show.
If you have an older Android device that has no more official updates, it's quite probably worth rooting your phone and installing a custom ROM, such as CyanogenMod. This, alone, can solve many Android slowdown problems for older devices.
And hearme0, you can spooge all over Apple's collective toes all you like, but I'll continue playing XCom: UFO Defense (PS1 version) on my phone and laugh at you while you do =) .
Edit --> I do sort of agree with you about Linux's maturity on phones, KillerBug, but honestly, it's already mature enough for dev work - since I have 2 friends who are using it for exactly that, empirically evident - and I don't see it taking much longer to hit its stride.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 26. November 2014 @ 19:25
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