Review: iPhone 3GS
Multitasking question...
The catch-phrase that seems to be kicked around is 'no 3rd party multitasking'. Apple's stuff in ROM seems to multitask OK, but not the apps I've been buying. If I'm playing music files in the IPOD software, and press the home button to run something else, the music continues.
Being a paying subscriber to DI.fm; I purchased Normsoft's Pocket Tunes for internet radio streaming, something the IPOD software won't do. The program works great, but when I press the home button, it exits Pocket Tunes completely -- no option to do otherwise. Can be annoying when you get a text, new email, etc and want to check...
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The iPhone does do a decent job of pseudo-multitasking. It's not actual multi-tasking, but most apps do load quickly and pick up right where you left off, which is most of what multi-tasking is supposed to provide. With third-party apps, it's up to the developer to make this work seamlessly, (a poorly-designed app would not pick up where you left off,) but Apple has created a system that will work well for most.
The real missing feature - as benjitek noted - is the ability to run apps in the background. Apple "cheats" and lets its own apps - like iPod and now Voice Memo - run in the background, but won't let third-party apps do this. There are all kinds of potential apps that might ...
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The iPhone is a decent device. I would have to say, at least it has some great build quality, but I guess that isn't really that hard when your working with just a touch screen and no other components...
And no, the iPhone really can't do true multitasking... though a lot of the programs do have a great cache system to supplement the lack of multitasking...
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