[General] Nokia comeback ?

[Majed B.]

There was a review by one of engadget's editors about the iPhone and
he was writing in a document, checking emails and chatting with the
staff on IRC. Every time he had to switch, the app would have to
close!!!

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Not to mention the default 'Maps' application doesn't work without a data connection....so its essentially useless.
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> Regards,
> --
> Burhan
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      Majed B.