The Pre is faster but did anyone detect an issue where he had to press on the screen more than once as though the screen was unresponsive?
That happen with the iphone also...
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The Pre is faster but did anyone detect an issue where he had to press on the screen more than once as though the screen was unresponsive?
Yeah, this really isn't as ground breaking as Clevin is trying to get us to believe. But he's trying so hard, so let's all just pat him on the back.
Um, please see his post, #38, in this very thread. I'm glad he finally explained it and look forward to seeing it in action, live.ok i am calling you out too.. you keep saying desktop level multitasking ... and people have called you out saying please explain and you have YET to explain you just make some comment and dont back it up.. so please back it up or SHUT UP
Um, please see his post, #38, in this very thread. I'm glad he finally explained it and look forward to seeing it in action, live.
To supplement that...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/palm-pre-review-part-1-hardware-webos-user-interface/
Off the engadget review. Watch the video showing off the gestures.
Really shows you how easy it is flipping between open applications.
The Pre is so fast because of the incredible 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 inside it.
The G1 and iPhone 3G use slower ARM11 CPUs. The next iPhone is likely to be Cortex A8-based too.
The Pre is faster but did anyone detect an issue where he had to press on the screen more than once as though the screen was unresponsive?
Unless and until someone figures out how to make more than one application visible in a usable size on a 3" screen, a phone will never have "desktop level multitasking."
Not this argument again...
It fails.
And yes, I already know you use multiple monitors, but no one really cares what you do with your computer. Modern OS's are not generally designed to be used like that. Machines that do run them require non-standard display adapters (graphics card) and then the displays must be calibrated - hardly "out of the box".
Oh wow an AIM buddy list!
And check this out, on my computer, I can browse the web, edit a document, read tweets and browse files all at the same time!
This is desktop level multitasking.
Actually... you can do them... one at a time. Unless, of course, somehow you are able to read one tweeted sentence with one eyeball and type a completely different sentence on another part of the screen with the other eyeball. After all, your inactive tasks are grayed out.
Congratulations, you just discovered the quickest way to switch between running applications - the speed it takes your eyeball to move 10°. I'm sure that kind of speed on a mobile device is at least a decade away, but don't worry, webOS will have it before iPhone OS.
Good, then WebOS will have desktop level multitasking in a decade.
Yep - in speed.
What clevin has been saying is that webOS has the same multi-tasking usability as a desktop. He's already explained what that means in this thread and others.
It has nothing to do with how much you can see at any given time, but how tasks are managed.
Spoken like a true fanboy. Tell me, how much does your computer slow down when you're running Safari and iTunes?The real win on a phone platform, is not the ability to have tasks sit in the background and do stuff. Which in many ways is an undesirable thing.
I don't want my foreground application having to fight for resources with a background application, if the price for that is a reduction in the speed of my main application.
The real win is having a task ready for instant resume - continuing identically from where we left it. That is the real benefit.
Being able to quickly and easily shift between 2 or more RAM resident applications would improve the iPhone.
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nothing in that review is desktop-level multitasking. Thats like a pretty version of windows mobile.
Spoken like a true fanboy. Tell me, how much does your computer slow down when you're running Safari and iTunes?
Spoken like a true fanboy. Tell me, how much does your computer slow down when you're running Safari and iTunes?
I thought this thread was supposed to be about mobile browser tests? I guess I read the title wrong.
Fair point.
The video shows the Pre to be marginally faster at loading web-pages than the iPhone3g.
Given it's the rendering time, and not the network speed which is the bottleneck here, one would expect the faster cpu'd Pre to win.
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The Pre is so fast because of the incredible 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 inside it.
The G1 and iPhone 3G use slower ARM11 CPUs. The next iPhone is likely to be Cortex A8-based too.