i keep coming to this drying up well of a thread so thirsty, but every time end gulping a handful of sand. yet I can't get enough of it. damn you Nokia and your shiny crack-like handsets!
on another note, Mango is a tricky fruit: eat it too early and you'll get a bitter aftertaste, leave it sitting on the shelf too long and you'll find it rotten to the core.
They all have some form of multitasking. Just limited.
iPhone - It has background running services. Not really multi-tasking as we know it. But sadly most don't seem to care. Android - Does have a task manager/switcher. But it's limited and pauses/kills apps in background. (very annoying) WP7 - After this Mango update, it has better multitasking than iPhone or Android imo. Very much S^3-like. Maemo - We know it already. Currently the best imo. Full proper multi-tasking. Wish N900 had better CPU and more RAM! Harmattan - if what K123 said was true, it seems to be similar to Maemo with live thumbnails and swiping between live apps.
Blackberry OS 6 on RIM's Playbook - Real multitasking too, something like a cross between Maemo and MeeGo ones with swiping between apps and live thumbs to choose from. Not bad actually.
Blackberry OS 6 on RIM's Playbook - Real multitasking too, something like a cross between Maemo and MeeGo ones with swiping between apps and live thumbs to choose from. Not bad actually.
And the palm pre too, It has been doing native multitasking since it came out I think at the end of 2009 like maemo. But maemo is still better because in the palm pre or bbb playbock when you have 30 apps open and you are on the last one and want to go back to the first one for example, you have swipe all over the apps, and that can be slow. In maemo the windows get smaller and you can see all apps.
The only thing that palm did very well on marketing was to develop the same palm pre with more ram, I mean the pre+. If nokia matter to release and N900 with 512MB ram, same software, even same CPU, I will totally buy it.
