Situation: You are hosting Quake 3 multiplayer on your phone and you are kicking ass. You get a important phone call. What will you do?
A. Wish it was a handheld which does not make calls and just play games. B. Curse the person who called you. C. Curse yourself for not putting the phone in offline mode. D. Exit the game and take the call. E. Game hangs / Phone hangs and you curse Nokia / Game Developer.
I take B and ignore the call until I'm done playing.. When I finish playing, I will call the person and I will make sure he has never heard so many swear words in his whole life
Palm OS also lacks multitasking, although some apps have worked around that, behaving like TSRs. (Try running pTunes, IM+, and Opera Mini (via the (rather buggy) IBM J9 JVM) at the same time, though. That's a recipe for a soft reset if I ever saw one.)
(The AMX 68000 kernel that Palm OS 4.x and earlier used actually supported multitasking, but Palm didn't buy a license to the kernel that allowed those APIs to be exposed. Not completely their fault, I mean, they had no idea that their glorified organizer would actually NEED to multitask 10 years later.)
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Situation: You are hosting Quake 3 multiplayer on your phone and you are kicking ass. You get a important phone call. What will you do?
A. Wish it was a handheld which does not make calls and just play games.
B. Curse the person who called you.
C. Curse yourself for not putting the phone in offline mode.
D. Exit the game and take the call.
E. Game hangs / Phone hangs and you curse Nokia / Game Developer.
I take B and ignore the call until I'm done playing.. When I finish playing, I will call the person and I will make sure he has never heard so many swear words in his whole life
F: Take the call while the server keeps running in the background. It's called multitasking, and Symbian has it.
...UNLIKE TH... nah, too easy.
Symbian or BB OS for exemple and Android too ... oh and LiMo :)
(I don't know about WinMo)
Actually any OS exept the i..
Yes, WinMo.
Palm OS also lacks multitasking, although some apps have worked around that, behaving like TSRs. (Try running pTunes, IM+, and Opera Mini (via the (rather buggy) IBM J9 JVM) at the same time, though. That's a recipe for a soft reset if I ever saw one.)
(The AMX 68000 kernel that Palm OS 4.x and earlier used actually supported multitasking, but Palm didn't buy a license to the kernel that allowed those APIs to be exposed. Not completely their fault, I mean, they had no idea that their glorified organizer would actually NEED to multitask 10 years later.)