[General] Nokia comeback ?

[Burhan Khalid]

There are lots of things that have been addressed with the 3.0 update, but
granted -- Apple's fans are eager to eat whatever is thrown at them so what
we take for granted (say copy paste) is a "wow" feature for them -- but, it
is false to say that the iphone doesn't do background apps.  The ability is
there in the device as Apple's own ipod application (the one that plays the
music) runs in the background just fine. So what the problem is that they
haven't made this feature available to 3rd party developers and have limited
it to certain apps themselves.

I guess part of the problem could be that the UI doesn't have any distinct
way to "see" what's running. For example in WinMo there is the task manager,
in Symbian you can hold the 'Home' key to get a listing of current apps, the
Palm Pre has it integrated into a finger swipe, and Android of course does
too -- all are distinct controls and actions; for the iphone there is only
one control point and if they were to implement "proper" background apps,
they'd have to come up with a way to have a universal combination to see all
background running apps, and I guess once they figure this out they'll open
up the API properly to 3rd party developers.

SMS + Dialer is a one thing, but imagine if you are using the navigation app
(whatever app it is), you get a phone call, so the dialer is brought to the
front -- when you go back to the navigation app, it has to reconnect with
the GPS....that truly is insane.

Not to mention the default 'Maps' application doesn't work without a data
connection....so its essentially useless.

Regards,
--
Burhan

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think what he meant is that you can switch between native Apple
> applications (Dialer, SMS) but can't between other applications (web, email,
> chat, ...etc.)
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net
> > wrote:
>
>> no kidding ? you mean if you are writing an sms or an email you can't
>> answer a call to avoid losing what you wrote for example ?!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bashar Abdullah wrote, On 08/29/2009 04:22 PM:
>>
>>
>>  I like the app switcher. One thing terrible in iPhone is, if I wanna
>>> reply to Sms or take phone call, Bye bye to my running app
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  hands on N900 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE looks amazing!
>>>> i LOVE the sliding keyboard idea
>>>>
>>>> 32GB internal memory upto 48GB with microSD
>>>> 600Mhz processor
>>>> 5MP cam
>>>> mozilla browser
>>>> wifi, gps, 3.5G
>>>>
>>>> pricing around 500 euros/$718
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but what bad screen finger prints all over it
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> General mailing list
>>>> General at oskw.org
>>>> http://oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> General mailing list
>>> General at oskw.org
>>> http://oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
>>>
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> General mailing list
>> General at oskw.org
>> http://oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>       Majed B.
>
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> General at oskw.org
> http://oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://oskw.org/pipermail/general_oskw.org/attachments/20090830/a6c541f3/attachment.html>