Johnny Socko

I can’t defend LG on your other points, but the Optimus S is basically stock Android — and my wife’s Optimus S runs about as smoothly as my Evo 4G.

Actually, that just goes to reinforce your point that LG’s proprietary software is what kills its phones.

So far, it appears that the principal finding of this experiment is that Paul is being an enormous pain-in-the-ass to his (unreasonably patient) friends and colleagues.

I have since seen 2 or 3 other reviews that mention the UI lagging or hanging, just like The Verge described. Not necessarily a dealbreaker for me, but extremely disappointing. I also wonder what LTE will do to the battery life. I can only assume that the One-X HSPA+ version would have better battery life, and still have decent data speeds even with LTE turned off.

…every once in a while when I’d hit the home button, I’d see a “Loading” screen while Sense got ready to show itself off.

God dammit, my current EVO does this, and I assumed that the insane hardware of the EVO LTE would finally put that issue to bed. I would actually be OK with the Sense UI if the phone had blazing speed, but the performance hit that it brings is unacceptable. Why can’t anyone make a phone this good with stock ICS?!? Don’t make me root, I don’t wanna root!

I’ve been very loyal to Sprint because of their pricing and my overall impression that they’re not Just Plain Evil, but I have to admit that their 3G data speeds in L.A. really suck (as for WiMax, reception is poor at home, good at work). I’m considering jumping to T-Mobile, because at least their everyday HSPA+ speeds are consistently fast. But then I’d be in the same boat, phone-wise — a good Sense phone, or an older ICS phone.

If you pause that video for too long, you’ll get monitor burn-in. :P

Seriously, this is awesome. I still remember drooling over this console in the video game department at Gemco. I would’ve gladly settled for a ColecoVision, but Santa brought me the more limiting Odyssey2. (I just ended up just playing games on our TI99-4A.)

Dear Sir: I may not purchase a cartridge from you, but you are my hero.