[TeMPOraL]

> If you're an end-use it quickly disappears and is a non-issue. It just isn't a real problem for end users.

Yes, it is. When people ask me how I like my new smartphone, I always say to them: "I like the idea behind Android, but it sucks in use; this smartphone is too weak to handle the basic OS, which makes using it terribly annoying for most of the time".

Yes, it sucks. There are constant lags in everything from button presses to scrolling. Main screen gets killed by the OS every few minutes, and it takes it 30 seconds to load up and become usable. Activating Wi-Fi and letting Facebook and GMail sync at the same time equals to several-minute long hang followed by me plugging the battery out. The phone occasionally hangs when receiving calls, and often when trying to dial.

Yes, for me, Android phones are piece of crap. I use mine, I put up with it, but it's not pleasant. It's damn annoying every single day.

[interlagos]

Even my 1st generation HTC Magic+ had an experience absolutely nothing like what you've described. I don't know what sort of broken device you're in possession of, but it has nothing to do with Android. What is being described generally are trivial framerate deviations while animating the UI, not "30 second" pauses.