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Robert-Freeman
10/13/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
As much as I would love this on my iPhone you can just BET that if Apple ever enables multitasking like this the FANBOYS will act like Apple invented it and it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, ignoring the Palm Pre (and other multitasking devices).
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TheSonOfKrypton
10/13/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
Wow. That multitasking idea is the Sex. Really nice idea guys.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/13/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
This is some good stuff and I don't even have an iphone.
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LessthanZach
10/13/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
One word: Kirikae. Kirikae is available through RockAPP or Cydia and lets you access your favorite apps and open apps via a double-tap on the home key. If you are in Facebook and want to open Pandora, double-tap home then select Pandora from favorites, the iPhone then backgrounds Facebook (adding it to your open apps list) and opens Pandora. You can do this as many times as the iPhone processor will allow. By far, this is the best Jailbreak app I have installed(very close to SBsettings)!
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stevewoz
10/13/09

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I have gotten around the multitasking issue to some extent. I carry 2 iPhones, one in each pocket, but one could be an iPod Touch. When on a call, I look up info on the other device, for example.
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TheSonOfKrypton
10/13/09

@stevewoz: That would be a HILARIOUS anecdote.....if I couldnt already look up whatever information I wanted while simultaneously on a call....
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Kaiser-Machead
10/12/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
Personally, I'd much rather have the option to enter a basic list view of open applications as well as a pane option to view all applications if I happen to be an app hoarder. That way, I can keep my home screen if I'm fairly organized, but be able to zip into an interface that presents my apps similarly to iTunes album listings, which will arrange them alphabetically. It may not be fancy, but sometimes fancy might just get in the way. I'm not certain of all the little details, but this doesn't look like it would work all that well in the real world. It seems more like impractical eye candy (insert ur jokes here plz), as a lot of things are shrunken down quite a bit. I don't think I'd care to use this day to day.
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dagamer34
10/12/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
iPhone apps right now are designed to use as much RAM as the device can handle. Unless Apple starts imposing strict RAM requirements per app so that you don't run out of memory, then multi-tasking will only be something we can dream of.

Maybe when the iPhone gets 512MB RAM...
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goaliegeek
10/12/09

In reply to Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
WANT NOW. Hopefully iPhone 4Gen will have a processor and enough RAM capable of doing this. Hate quitting my radio app to reply to a txt
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appletoad
10/12/09

@goaliegeek: There's a jailbreak app that lets you reply to a text from within the popup without closing the app you are using.
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tande04
10/13/09

@appletoad: There is also a jailbreak app that lets you continue playing the radio app when you go to open anything else. Jailbreak, there really is an app for that.
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madog
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
But you can't play games, text, make calls, listen to music and masturbate on the subway at the same time with just one device and no free hands.
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berbar
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
I'm starting to thing that no, not really. I hate when my iPhone is docked to my sound system and a call comes in.
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CaptCaveman
07/16/09

@berbar: I actually find it difficult to hold a serious phone conversation and listen to music or especially a podcast anyway. So I like the feature when the music is paused so I can answer the phone and then resumes where it left off.
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berbar
07/16/09

@CaptCaveman: Both of you are right. the airport mode is not always convenient. What if you are waiting for a call?

And no, I can't have a phone conversation while I have music blasting out of the speakers either.

I was talking about having to walk to the sound system and picking up the phone. Then I remembered the times when we had to walk across the house to pick up the wired phone. We've become too spoiled.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
What's that phone thing that they have attached to the DS?
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Itspeat!
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
NO! because if i am playing games i can't check my email or call people at the same time...

sure it's convenient for the pocket and carrying but i don't know, i like my things doing what they do best..

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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
Here are some impromptu haiku, written about this post, and all of its wonderful comments:

Gizmodo likes
the iPhone more
than its own wife

The priviledged
are governed by status;
read more books

Grey commenters,
examine yourselves and know
why you don't have stars

I'd sell my child
for an iphone
touching a child produces nothing

That last haiku
put chris hansen
on my tail

break tags
appearing from nowhere
like night stars. WTF.
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Sonofabitch. That should be framed.
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closhedbb
07/16/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Too bad not a single one of those is a haiku.

*cough* 5-7-5 *cough*
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

@closhedbb: That only works in Japanese. You can't simply translate the syllable structure to English, because Japanese words and grammar are structured differently.

Trust me. I studied this kind of shit for a long, long time.
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PaddyDugan
07/16/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I especially appreciate Haiku #2. For #3 though, what does the gold star mean, that the editors like your comments? Sorry, I didn't read the directions and now I can't find them (Story of Life, actually).
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

@PaddyDugan: Well, at the time I started writing that, about 5 out of 6 grey comments were some variation of basically "iPhone!!! Yay!!"

Now even though I appreciate the exclamation point as punctuation. Exclamation points alone cannot carry a comment.

You get a star for being consistently funny or interesting. As a reward, you get black text and "featured". As a priviledge, you can elevate greys to featured-dom. As a punishment, you have to wade through the horrible stupidity of "red text" commenters - those who haven't been approved yet.
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Nick
07/16/09

@Pope John Peeps II: touching a child produces nothing

um. what?
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

@Nick: My island name is Nicko: Yes I'm glad you...uh... cleverly noticed the joke I was telling... Good eye?
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matt buchanan
07/16/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Actually, I was thinking about the Pre, since you actually CAN multitask on it.
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OMG! Ponies!
07/16/09

@matt buchanan: You have your terminology wrong there, ginger.

Playing video games, checking Facebook, listening to music, and using Twitter at the same time is not "multi-tasking"; it's "multi-slacking".
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badwolfcubed
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
As Michael Mace (former Palm exec, now consultant) said on his Mobile Opportunity blog, "The sad reality is that converged products fail unless there is almost zero compromise involved in them."

Mobile Opportunity
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

@badwolfcubed: Good point. Good link. Comment yay. Me like.
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HildaClytemnestra
07/16/09

In reply to Convergence Is Overrated
I call that gadget the iPhone/iPod Touch
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/16/09

@HildaClytemnestra: Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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NurseDave
07/16/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: BWAHAHAHAHA!
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