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I was the owner of an iPhone. When I lost it, I bought a Nokia N900. Since then, I use my phone much more than before, and multitasking is one of the causes of
by pqs 17y ago
I was the owner of an iPhone. When I lost it, I bought a Nokia N900. Since then, I use my phone much more than before, and multitasking is one of the causes of this increase. Of course, my battery life is worse, as I use the phone much more.
And what I do is not running SETI@home. I download podcasts on the phone using gpodder. That's much better than any option available on the iPhone. When I'm at home, I like to read some mails while podcasts are downloading and answer a call if somebody calls me.
When my wife is driving, I like to be able to read e-mails while Sygic (the in-car gps application) tells her when to turn right or left (running on the background).
These two scenarios would be beneficial to iPhone users.
- ugh 17y agoThose scenarios seem to be possible with iPhone OS 4? Right? Downloading podcasts in the background is already possible with iTunes, task completion may make that possible with third party apps also (I don’t know, would be nice if someone could confirm that one – seems only logical that if you can complete uploads in the background you also can complete downloads). Quickly switching to Mail while answering a call is possible already now (the Phone runs in the background since day one), now it’s just also possible while making VoIP calls. So where’s the problem?
- wfarr 17y agoSince their example of task completion was allowing flickr to continue to upload your photos after switching away from the application, I'm sure downloads will be possible as well.
- pqs 17y agoDownloading podcasts on the background with the iPhone's iTunes is a pain in the ass. It is not possible to subscribe to programs on iTunes, one has to search the podcasts each time. The experience is suboptimal. In theory the iPhone is the best smartphone there. It is much more beautiful than Maemo5, of course, but, as I said, I do much more with maemo than with the iPhone. Of course I never used iPhone OS 4. But the article shows that the Maemo has done it much better than Apple.