I've had an iPhone, and I currently use an n900. I love the MOSTLY open sourceness of the n900, but I think it's time that the open source zealots start asking a little more from Nokia. Reasonable?
its not real multitasking its just basicly what they've had all along but they have added a little task switcher with icon, the only thing i've heard that really multi tasks it will play audio in background for certain apps fast app switching. It's what allows applications to save its state and stop running, and then restart instantly where you left it.
They glossed over this "task completion" stuff. If this is generic enough, I can do plenty of damage here.
Who cares who was first? I don't know single person from my friends who really knew what symbian multitasking means. They have/had 10 programs always open. It doesn't meant anything when you claim to be first. All what matters is implementation. Taking things gradually with crippled multitasking on iphones hardware is imho just good way to keep customers happy. If customers phone is frozen by 3rd party application i would say that average joe users says immediately "This phone is ****" without caring anything about program or any lower level stuff what's going on.
So can the new "multitasking" handle to browser windows? If yes, how to I reconize them from each other when they in the "application bar" only are visible with the same icon?
"The system actually runs the services apps need in the background -- the apps don't need to do them individually, so it's not a "true" multitasking system, but it seems plenty effective. There are seven services: background audio, which allows you to use the standard pop-over iPod controls, Voice over IP, which can receive calls in the background, location services for GPS and social networking (there's an indicator if any service is tracking you), updated push notifications with local notifications, task completion so you can finish things like uploads in the background, and fast app switching, which lets apps sleep and resume instantly. Notably missing? Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission."
From engadget. And they say that it wont come to 3GS.
"The system actually runs the services apps need in the background -- the apps don't need to do them individually, so it's not a "true" multitasking system, but it seems plenty effective. There are seven services: background audio, which allows you to use the standard pop-over iPod controls, Voice over IP, which can receive calls in the background, location services for GPS and social networking (there's an indicator if any service is tracking you), updated push notifications with local notifications, task completion so you can finish things like uploads in the background, and fast app switching, which lets apps sleep and resume instantly. Notably missing? Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission."
From engadget. And they say that it wont come to 3GS.
It will be available on iPhone 3GS, Touch 3rd gen and iPad.
It won't be available on the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, Touch 1st and 2nd gen.
i just read that, i think i will jailbreak and impliment one of the modders solutions
I'm just going back to my regularly scheduled programming. My current iPhone OS device can't be used to test the limitations of these new features, so my short term interest has quickly gone to zero. Damn am I cheap! Maybe after the June 22nd announcement I can find a deal on a used low-end 3GS.
