[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Jack_R1,

A. On extent of multitaksing

Your explanation of how multitasking works in Android is really the same as what I was saying, or perhaps my lack of clarity caused you to misunderstand what I said. Basically, before memory limit is reached, Android keeps all the programs alive regardless of the situations. In contrast, in OS4.0, only services that need to be kept alive are allowed to run. These services are for things such as GPS location tracking, music streaming, complete a download, and VOIP. In the other cases, their state is remembered and the programs are not running anymore (because doing so take up resources, sapping battery and performance) although the memory limit has not been reached. That's how I understand it.

I'm not aware of the CyanogenMod that allow memory swap to use the SD card thereby delaying task killing. How do users apply this mod? Is that available to all firmware and phones?

I'm aware of the presence of third party task killers.

I don't quite know what your "iPhone's no actual multitasking method" statement is trying to say. If you're talking about widget like information, it is available in jailbroken phone today, althoug I must say it is just not as attractively presented as the widget in Sense UI. If you go back to my post #132, you'll see an example of such a widget. Therefore, I don't think your argument that iPhone has no actual multitasking has much leg to stand on.

B. On Method of task switching

So, what you're saying here is that in addition to the methods I've described on how Android switches task there is another method that I have not included, right? This is something similar to a typical task manger in winmo where you click on an icon on the taskbar to show all running task, and there you could kill task or switch to any of them, right?

What's the name of this program? Is it available on all firmware and phones?

C. Will people spend hours online to correct wrong information on this thread?

I don't know. But I know your judgement will not be a good one on this though, because after 8 months being a member you only had 12 posts before this. 1.5 post per month type of users will probably not be spending hours correcting wrong information. However, I know that most users are quite eager to do so, especially when they read something that conflicts with what they know, and especially on a potentially controversial discussion like another phone versus their own beloved phone. The fact that I'm able to draw you, a rather infrequent poster out of the closet to make this post (which is extremely rare act for you) proves that it is difficult for many people to NOT respond when they see things that they don't agree with. I hope your activity on this thread will boost your post counts somewhat.

Even if we don't get many responses, it is still okey, as long as the quality of the response from the few who do participate is good.

So, I'm optimistic.

Oh really? You seriously believe that all backend business functions could simply be done through a web browser? So, you think SAP, being the largest ERP software company in the world, was merely wasting their time creating the iPhone based front end access to the backend system? If you really know how to do this, you can be a very rich person doing consulting work for large organisations teaching them how to do it, because companies do spend tens/hundreds of thousand dollars doing it the way that you deem unnecessary.

Cheers.