was this cruel or funny?

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[TW]Fox;14710709 said:
It's no secret that the more powerful a device the less idiotproof it is. Being able to multitask is a pretty fundamental part of computing and modern smartphones are computers.
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More powerful? I have a new HQ iPaq Mobile Messenger on my desk running Windows Mobile 6.1 and it has only enough power to run Explorer.exe and little else. It is a **** poor device. The other Windows Mobile devices are not far behind.

I don't like the lack of multi-tasking on the iPhone but at this moment in time it is preferable to the mess that is Windows Mobile. That OS just doesn't handle closing of applications in a sensible or consistant manner. What I'd like to see is an iPhone with multi-tasking similar to the Palm Pre. Then again the Palm Pre suffers with slow down and poor battery due to the aforementioned multi-tasking.

I use an iPhone for business and so far the lack of multi-tasking hasn't caused me any issues. The same cannot be said for the HTC Touch Pro I had before it and the HTC didn't run Things nor does it play Doom Ressurection
 
I was out today with OSMTrack (A GPS logging app) running in the background (via a jailbreak and the backgrounder tool) and it worked really well. I was still able to use the Google Maps application with the GPS without it messing up the logger and also play music on the iPod. The battery drain wasn't too bad either, it drains about 50% more running in the foreground as you are unable to lock the phone without it killing the app, meaning the screen has to be on all the time. It works pretty well, the iPhone OS will kill background tasks if memory gets too low though so browsing in Safari whilst you have apps backgrounded is probably not as sucessful.
 
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I was out today with OSMTrack (A GPS logging app) running in the background (via a jailbreak and the backgrounder tool) and it worked really well. I was still able to use the Google Maps application with the GPS without it messing up the logger and also play music on the iPod. The battery drain wasn't too bad either, it drains about 50% more running in the foreground as you are unable to lock the phone without it killing the app, meaning the screen has to be on all the time. It works pretty well, the iPhone OS will kill background tasks if memory gets too low though so browsing in Safari whilst you have apps backgrounded is probably not as sucessful.
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dont say that the Winblows fanboys will hunt you down with.. hang on there arent any decent apps for the winblows platform....:p
 
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