Not just do it, but do it gracefully. Symbian has a pretty intuitive task manager that lets you switch between apps, kills apps, etc. The OS also automatically closes background apps that cause the phone to run out of memory.
Why is it so hard for everyone else to do with has been done on Symbian for going on a decade now? There are plenty of use cases for this beyond streaming music over the web. If that's all Gartenberg can come up with, he's doing mobility wrong.
@commenter7 I don't think that Symbian can do it very gracefully... I'm not even a power user, and I've had my fair share of Low Memory warnings when doing mundane tasks back when I used to use the N82.
@minceyfresh perhaps you were installing apps improperly, or something else. I had the N82, and regularly used 20+ apps at once. It may have been an early firmware issue, but despite the rare app that would murder resources, running 10+ apps at once on most Symbian devices is child's play.
I think Apple and Microsoft are playing this game because they CAN'T consistently deliver a good enough experience. And Apple is just too immature to do it well at the moment, so they make money with its cloud based PUSH notifications. I believe this will be an income stream where app devs are charged for this functionality, which I dislike.
I like the push notification system for web connected apps, but for apps not needing PUSH, I'd prefer they have native multitasking without the need for a server connection. Just my two cents.
@christexaport There's little merit to the idea that Apple avoids multitasking because the experience is poor. On my jailbroken iPhone, I used Backgrounder designate some apps to always run in the background (that is, to not quit when I switch away from the app) and some to background on an as-needed basis. For task management, I used Kirikae. The experience is extremely smooth, at least on the 3GS (which has twice the RAM of the 3G).
One area where this has come in really handy (aside from music apps) is with VOIP apps. It's nice to know that, for instance, a Skype call won't abruptly terminate when I receive an incoming GSM call.
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If symbian can do it....
@commenter7
if even the first version of WinCE can do it.....
@commenter7
Not just do it, but do it gracefully. Symbian has a pretty intuitive task manager that lets you switch between apps, kills apps, etc. The OS also automatically closes background apps that cause the phone to run out of memory.
Why is it so hard for everyone else to do with has been done on Symbian for going on a decade now? There are plenty of use cases for this beyond streaming music over the web. If that's all Gartenberg can come up with, he's doing mobility wrong.
@commenter7 I don't think that Symbian can do it very gracefully... I'm not even a power user, and I've had my fair share of Low Memory warnings when doing mundane tasks back when I used to use the N82.
@minceyfresh
The N82 didnt have demand paging or as aggressive memory management as more recent versions of the OS me thinks
@minceyfresh perhaps you were installing apps improperly, or something else. I had the N82, and regularly used 20+ apps at once. It may have been an early firmware issue, but despite the rare app that would murder resources, running 10+ apps at once on most Symbian devices is child's play.
I think Apple and Microsoft are playing this game because they CAN'T consistently deliver a good enough experience. And Apple is just too immature to do it well at the moment, so they make money with its cloud based PUSH notifications. I believe this will be an income stream where app devs are charged for this functionality, which I dislike.
I like the push notification system for web connected apps, but for apps not needing PUSH, I'd prefer they have native multitasking without the need for a server connection. Just my two cents.
@minceyfresh never had any memory issues on my n82. and i can multi-task with the best of them
@christexaport There's little merit to the idea that Apple avoids multitasking because the experience is poor. On my jailbroken iPhone, I used Backgrounder designate some apps to always run in the background (that is, to not quit when I switch away from the app) and some to background on an as-needed basis. For task management, I used Kirikae. The experience is extremely smooth, at least on the 3GS (which has twice the RAM of the 3G).
One area where this has come in really handy (aside from music apps) is with VOIP apps. It's nice to know that, for instance, a Skype call won't abruptly terminate when I receive an incoming GSM call.
@commenter7
I can have 10s of apps running on my UIQ phone!
Don't laugh at me!!!