Android Kit kat or Lollipop?

[Guest Console Peasant]

My Moto G is coming via mail tomorrow and I heard that upgrading to lollipop might not be such a great idea, not sure of credibility but I've heard: Less battery, slower boot times, and launching apps sometimes takes longer. I have no knowledge of phones any-more so if someone could tell me what I should do, that would be appreciated, my main concern is the battery, is it really shorter on newer firmware?

[ImBleu]

I've heard the opposite of that, apart from the fact that they added longer animations for Lollipop.

[Zeke]

AFAIK Lollipop is the energy-optimized vesrion of OS, it's quite weird you get less battery life with it.

[Guest Console Peasant]

I've heard the opposite of that, apart from the fact that they added longer animations for Lollipop.

Well that's odd, I hope someone knows or has had experience

[jayctech]

Lollipop is supposed to run better. Some bugs in the early release are responsible for "poor" battery performance.

 

 

That said, it's much prettier than KK.

[ImBleu]

Well that's odd, I hope someone knows or has had experience

[Guest Console Peasant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDQ1z1-PvU

I thought I watched an MKBHD video on it, guess I missed have missed it,

Thanks for the reminder

[Guest Console Peasant]

Lollipop is supposed to run better. Some bugs in the early release are responsible for "poor" battery performance.

 

 

That said, it's much prettier than KK.

Thanks!

[Aniallation]

That said, it's much prettier than KK.

Subjective opinion though, I think Lollipop is so ugly compared to KK, I don't like this new "material design"

[jayctech]

Subjective opinion though, I think Lollipop is so ugly compared to KK, I don't like this new "material design"

[Aniallation]

I actually prefer having a solid notification drawer, rather then this floating nonsense

[Tsuki]

i actually love lolipop, my only problem thus far is that its ugly. everything is so bright and cheery..fills me with rage. but i fixed that with a custom skin. so now its mostly perfect.

i think my boot times are a little slower, but the only time i ever turn off my phone is when im updating so that doesnt bother me. i havent noticed my battery being drained any faster(although its plugged in all day anyways), but the apps are certainly faster to open than before.

 

for reference im using a galaxy s4 running CyanogenMod nightlys for android 5.0.2 so my experiance could be a bit different than stock android

[Pomfinator]

In theory Lollipop increases battery life, has faster boot times overall (due to ART runtime)

 

In practice...it often decreases battery life or it stays the same.