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Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:16:33 +0000

The 5800XM has other issues, too: a poor touch-screen keyboard and abysmal battery life. There’s a reason I have *four* batteries for this phone.

Comment on Apps I Miss on Nokia Handsets by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:14:38 +0000

I don’t know what your particular issue is with why you stay with Nokia, only you can answer that. For me, I’ve gotten to the point where I only load a handful of apps on a fresh install of a Nokia phone. Gravity is, of course, one of those apps, the others being Google Maps, Screenshot, and X-Plore. If I want Exchange connectivity, I load RoadSync and Pointsec Mobile (the latter made by my employer, Check Point Software). I can pretty much live without all the others.

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by gerrymoth

gerrymoth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:07:49 +0000

Today I’ve been using my Nokia 5800XM to listen to podcasts, tweet on Gravity, check email using Profimail and read greader using opera mini, while caling and texting now and then, ALL at the same time with no Crashes, Shutdowns or slowdown. Yes Nokia’s can multitask, with the right phone and the right apps.

Comment on Apps I Miss on Nokia Handsets by gerrymoth

gerrymoth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000

Are the applications available the reason I like Nokia phones? And is this the reason I can’t move away from Nokia?

When I had the 1st iPhone for 2 weeks, I hated it as I was restricted to what I could do on it, really p!ssed me off and a sold it quickly.

Gravity is becoming the BEST application on Nokia phone at the moment and could I live without it, probably not

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:16:12 +0000

It does today, it just only gives you new traps reported within a 30 mile radius (give or take). If it could do push based on your GPS location, that would be hot

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by Andy Abramson

Andy Abramson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:13:23 +0000

Trapster and push notification would be very, very cool.

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:13:07 +0000

You’re right, David. Nobody does the work to develop apps–mobile or otherwise–that are CPU, memory, and power efficient. Heck, even the OS vendors can’t get this right (yes, I’m looking at you, Microsoft and Nokia).

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by David Beckemeyer

David Beckemeyer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:18:39 +0000

I’d be okay if they never open up multiasking as a free-for-all. I’m okay with those apps that want to mutitask to require an extra fee and extra testing and certification for exactly the reasons you state. Franky, people have forgotten how to program for relibability, for pacemaker type reliability. We don’ thave to. The OS recovers all our leaked memory for us when we restart the app, and computes have so much memory etc that poor practices can operate in real life without much trouble. As you note, not so on a smaller machine, where memory, CPU, and battery power consumption matter. I’ve written apps for Nokia that run in the background reliably for months on end, don’t consume all the memory, or burn up the battery, etc. But you have to REALLY work at it and have all those things at the forefront of the design and implementation – and that’s not the way most people write apps. Most people don’t even know enough about the guts of the machine to know how to write that kind of code.

Comment on Why The iPhone Doesn’t Multitask by Jeremey

Jeremey — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:32:26 +0000

Agreed, and I don’t think people have fully grasped the push notification model or the power available there.

Comment on iPhone In The House by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:34:53 +0000

I doubt I’ll rename the blog iPhoneBoy

Comment on iPhone In The House by tco

tco — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20:05 +0000

the wordpress app is pretty slick….will the blog be renamed iPhoneboy?

Comment on What’s With The Encryption in the iPhone 3GS? by Wolverine

Wolverine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:26:57 +0000

Actually, Apple has documented the security to a decent level of detail; you can read all about it here:
http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_Security_Overview.pdf

It doesn’t answer all of PhoneBoy’s questions, but it’s a start…btw, they use AES 256 bit encoding.

Comment on iPhone In The House by Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:39:31 +0000

Always interesting to see a new users perspective. Congrats on your choice / desire to try something new. Recommendations for you. Try the WSJ, USAToday, NYT apps. You may like Twitterfon or TweetDeck. Kindle is worth trying. There’s some games too which are just amazing – if you have the time. However the portfolio of apps I use everyday remains relatively small.

Comment on iPhone In The House by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:08:51 +0000

Duh, I didn’t try the obvious: hit the home button in the call! Ok, that’s cool, thanks, everyone!

Lucie: Toby (my cat) used to like paper wads as well (he liked playing cards, too) but he’s about twice as old as Cleo and has grown lazy.

Comment on iPhone In The House by Lucie Osh

Lucie Osh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:12:28 +0000

Have an upgraded iPod Touch – love it. I bought it last year primarily for music, to replace an iPod Nano, but have used it for so much more. The app store is wonderful and it does take self-control to avoid running up a big bill.
The other reason I’m commenting is that your cat looks almost exactly like my cat, body type and all. Mine is named Cleo and she’s nine years old. Her favorite activity, aside from eating, is chasing paper wads. She runs over to the printer whenever I turn it on, hoping I’ll make a paper wad for her.