Apple iPhone 3G - user opinions and reviews
- Anonymous
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MULTITASKING FACTS :
iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth
March 13th, 2008
Daniel Eran Dilger
Certain pundits have developed a rash of malignant concerns about iPhone 2.0’s SDK. The first issue they’re scratching at is the iPhone’s apparent inability to run multiple applications at once. The suggestion is that the iPhone is a multitasking impaired appliance just like the original Mac or the Palm Pilot, and unlike the supposed multitasking powerhouse that is Windows CE, which powers Windows Mobile devices. That’s wrong, here’s why.
The iPhone is Unix.
The first clue into discovering how the iPhone works is a look at its core OS. The iPhone runs Apple’s same kernel as Mac OS X: a hybrid of Mach and BSD that hosts a standard Unix subsystem. It supports multiple concurrent processes and multiple users.
At this point, it’s useful to point out that the Palm OS was also built on top of a multitasking kernel, but Palm only licensed it for use from Kadak as a single-tasking environment. That made the Palm OS very much like the classic Mac OS from the mid 80s: to launch a second application, the first had to be shutdown.
Apple doesn’t face the same problem with the iPhone; it owns the iPhone’s kernel and faces no other external technical limitations to prevent multitasking. The ability of the iPhone to answer a call, pull up the Maps app while the call is in progress, and then follow a link to a web page before ending the call was demonstrated in one of its first advertisements.
The iPhone rings when browsing the web, music plays in the background while performing other tasks, and can check emails periodically in the background. It can clearly multitask.
- iLUVZtehIPOWNZ
- S00m
Well, one thing's for sure, and that this phone is going to sell like hotcakes this holiday season.
My apologies for the people to whom I may look like an anti-iPhone person here, nothing could be farther from the truth.
I will choose the iPhone over any Nokia, Sony Ericsson, or Windows Mobile device out there.
I just had to point out my real-life experiences and troubles of how I was so used to having apps running in the background that doing Alt-Tab was something I was so accustomed to.
Even if the iPhone can't do the things that a SmartPhone can, that does not mean that it sucks. It's one of the best devices out there at the moment and it deserves a highly recommended status.
It's THE perfect gift this holiday season.
- Louie
- w0QN
Now, im sure for myself that I'll be getting this one by this month.
I had borrowed my friend's iPhone 3G, and even if this phone lack some basic features. I like it very much. This phone is really classy.
I have nokia phone which had some features that iPhone 3G is lacking.
So no need to seek those features that iPhone are lacking.
This will be my new toy.
- Anonymous
- P%nm
Anonymous, 02 Nov 2008AT LEAST the iPhone has bluetoothand wireless
- milano
- nCEF
I have this phone. Is great. I write this words with him, with Safari browser. But, I have to ask something: how I can play games on iPhone? Please answer me.
- ARSIS TRADING
- 3ccQ
Anonymous, 31 Oct 2008..do you need to pay for a plan to use the internet?Yes, if u use the 3G Internet, cause your network provides u the internet. (That's why is called "network provider").
No, you don't have to pay if u use the WireLess function.
- Anonymous
- P%nm
Anonymous, 02 Nov 2008Has anyone got Tap Tap Revenge, Nine Inch Nails version? It looks ok but you have to pay fo... morehttp://tapulous.com/ttrnin/
- Anonymous
- P%nm
Has anyone got Tap Tap Revenge, Nine Inch Nails version?
It looks ok but you have to pay for it, not like the free versions.
Trent Reznor picked the songs.
- Anonymous
- i23%
Anonymous, 01 Jan 1970yea buddy i got whithout contract
i bought with optus prepaid iphone 3G in australia
try to go to hongkong,singapore, italy or a new zeland to buy Factory Unlock and non contract iphone 3G but its cost you a lot of money.... A LOT MAN
- Anonymous
- i23%
I.H, 31 Oct 2008Can anybody tell me how the battery life of the IPhone is and if its easy to text. I really am... morei own that phone
and that battrey is sux man, hardcore user need to recharge the battrey everyday for me every 2 days
- Anonymous
- P%nm
Anonymous, 02 Nov 2008BEWARE:
I had a look at the iPhone 3G, and found out that the Safari web Browser (as well a... moreWow, that's breaking news...
...not!
Go buy something else then.
- Anonymous
- 4TEf
BEWARE:
I had a look at the iPhone 3G, and found out that the Safari web Browser (as well as the iPod touch)does not have Adobe Flash.
- Anonymous
- P%nm
Anonymous, 01 Nov 2008iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth
March 13th, 2008
Daniel Eran Dilger
Certain pu... moreI think he means applications requiring a task manager to exit from so you don't keep running up a phone bill, by using data in the background without being aware of it.
I like the way I can leave 4 or 5 pages open at once in Safari and when I flick between them they refresh, updating the sites, it's handy for news.
- Anonymous
- 3Y5K
iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth
March 13th, 2008
Daniel Eran Dilger
Certain pundits have developed a rash of malignant concerns about iPhone 2.0’s SDK. The first issue they’re scratching at is the iPhone’s apparent inability to run multiple applications at once. The suggestion is that the iPhone is a multitasking impaired appliance just like the original Mac or the Palm Pilot, and unlike the supposed multitasking powerhouse that is Windows CE, which powers Windows Mobile devices. That’s wrong, here’s why.
The iPhone is Unix.
The first clue into discovering how the iPhone works is a look at its core OS. The iPhone runs Apple’s same kernel as Mac OS X: a hybrid of Mach and BSD that hosts a standard Unix subsystem. It supports multiple concurrent processes and multiple users.
At this point, it’s useful to point out that the Palm OS was also built on top of a multitasking kernel, but Palm only licensed it for use from Kadak as a single-tasking environment. That made the Palm OS very much like the classic Mac OS from the mid 80s: to launch a second application, the first had to be shutdown.
Apple doesn’t face the same problem with the iPhone; it owns the iPhone’s kernel and faces no other external technical limitations to prevent multitasking. The ability of the iPhone to answer a call, pull up the Maps app while the call is in progress, and then follow a link to a web page before ending the call was demonstrated in one of its first advertisements.
The iPhone rings when browsing the web, music plays in the background while performing other tasks, and can check emails periodically in the background. It can clearly multitask.
- Anonymous
- 3Y5K
In Steve's keynote demo he showed a bunch on multitasking with the iPhone.
Thing like listening to music which fades down when a call comes and looking up stuff on the internet and sending emails while talking on the phone.
So yeah it can do that kind of stuff.
You should also know that multitasking depends also from the network, not from the phone alone, in 3G you can do a lot more than on edge as you need bandwidth...
- Anonymous
- P%nm
iLUVZtehIPOWNZ, 01 Nov 2008How ironic is it that you say "unparalleled performance" when the phone itself can't run impor... moreYeah, it's a pity you have to switch the music off when you want to browse the web and calls, messages or emails don't come in because it can only do one thing at a time...
...hang on a minute, the iPhone can do this, hey what's it called when a phone does a few things at the same time?
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