And Ubuntu Phone is very much Work in Progress: the mutli-tasking issue is discussed, frequently and extensively and there will be a different take on it from the present implementation.

Thing is: the team is small and progress is not fast. Much can frustrate - such as the browser download issue. Compared to Maemo it is a somewhat bare-bones experience and there are things one misses. (A bigger screen (my old eyes!) and faster browsing are not among them :-).

And if you are on the rc-proposed channel, updates of one sort or another arrive daily.

So, ....