[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
I put the engadget widget on my desktop and I press BACK after I read the news. However, it's memory consumption became that large. This does not happen all the time, but when it does, it drains battery.

My Focus and Captivate are set up with exactly same Email accounts. Both phones receive exactly same Emails. What's the additional work done on Android used for? Fixing the Dalvik?:D

Using more power to do same work is not a great feature, do you agree with me?

Yep I don't know what every thread in the system task does, but why is it taking that much CPU time? How can you control it?

System is running all the time, on iOS, on WP7, on WebOS, on any smartphone OS. Why is this less a problem for WP7 and iOS?

This is the shortage of WP7 and I don't think anyone is denying it. I'm waiting for those APIs to be added. If you desperately need these features just go to Android. I say this to anyone who donot want to wait.

I'm not convincing you to go back to your HD7 in this thread. Just you cannot assume everyone cannot wait.

This is what I stated to be aproblem. You only know what app you opened recently, but not the apps that are currently running.

Samsung Taskmanager tells what app you are running, but it won't let you switch. You can only kill task or clear memory. Sometimes a task started early won't show up in the recent app list. This is unconfortable to me.

If you run a 3rd party taskmanager (Samsung Taskmanager won't show services). You will see those services.

Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. You can actually feel the glitches when you start a few non-active task then just leave them in memory. Samsung Task manager does have the clear memory button but from my experience you cannot get all your RAM back after the phone is up for some time.

(Android does not have a built in task manager, the button in recent task list is part of TouchWiz)

Well, although Samsung did not provide a auto-killer app, Moto's taskmanager does offer auto-kill functionality. Do you believe Moto is idiot on this?

There is instant-resume hack for WP7. Theoratically the background app is paused and won't consume CPU time, but in fact if you don't quit with BACK button your battery drains faster. Not really sure if this is because of LP memory power management or some other reason, but keeping a high level of occupied memory shortens batterylife.

Isn't this a bad thing for users?

Also the problem is more widely affected. I can recall on the first day I get my Captivate, I cannot get myAT&T running, it crashes all the time. Air Attack HD, could not run on Nexus S for soem time. Tegra2 based devices' users are still waiting for some game to release working data package. Before developer can handle all the platforms, these are all users' problems.

I need a GSM phone but the closest TM tower is 20KM away:(

Anyway, either you and me cannot represent all the phone users. However I think recently you tend to proof WP7 is delivering a worse UX than Android, so I am stating that based on my usage, I get better UX on WP7.

What's the problem with keeping Android phones? Many people keep a backup phone. WP7 is missing features, I won't doubt that. But this does not hurt me much.

Although I am keeping my Captivate, my SIM is my Focus for 95% of the time. I put it back to Captivate for Google Map only when I was visiting DC. And I still have to carry Focus cause before the end of day Captivate will run out of battery for sure.:D