It might surprise you, but the majority of potential cell phone customers don't really care about multi-tasking (beyond maybe a few simple things, like playing music and downloading email in the background...)
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Palm Pre DEFINITELY KICK BUTTS (puts iphone on shame)!
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It might surprise you, but the majority of potential cell phone customers don't really care about multi-tasking (beyond maybe a few simple things, like playing music and downloading email in the background...)
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I dont think ive ever seen any of my friends or family multi tasking on a phone. Usually just games/texting/calling people.
Big time multitasking tends to be more of a business kinda thing
Statistics to back that up?
TONS of people are buying smartphones, with no real need for any of the functions outside of a browser or email. It seems the normal kind of phone to have now is a so called smart phone, whether you actually need it or not.
Yes, it will get HUGE press indeed. But, perhaps some of the potential switchers would have already (re-)signed-up for contracts with Sprint. As for original iPhone subscribers who will be having their contracts expire in June, I thinks it's safe to say that they will be automatically re-upping with the iPhone.
I actually think that the majority of people (but definitely not people on here), don't even bother to look into what cellphone they want. Their contract expires, they go to the store (or their own carrier), and they buy what the salesman talks them into.
is getting ridiculus. multitouch isnt necessary on a cell phone nor pictures or videos and so on.
also people use multitaskinh everyday.they open the mail, grab some promotion code and put it on a webpage then copy something from another page and paste it on a conversation with friends.
I just want multi-tasking for the ability to cut and paste and have the apps be able to communicate with each other. For example, shift a file stored in one app to another (so it can be edited or e-mail or whatever). I'm unsure if you would need multi-tasking per se for this, but you probably would need apps running in the background in some form. As for true multi-tasking, the majority wouldn't need it.
That's only if you would need to have both apps truly "open" to do the copy and pasting. If so, then yes, we need multi-tasking.
Is that why WinMob phones (with all their Task Managers) outsold iPhones and Centros (which don't have a task manager) last year?
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Doesn't the iphone OS already multi-task? I'm pretty sure it does, after all it is Unix under the hood after all. I think you're confusing the current lack of developer access to multitasking with an inability to do it at all.
Stats to back this up? And we're talking about smartphones here right?
Non-sequitur argument. That's like saying I've never seen friends with smartphones so there's no need for smartphones.
Just having copy and paste is an extension to wanting multitask abilities. And look at how many people on this site alone want copy and paste for the iPhone.
The Palm Pre makes the iPhone look prehistoric. Name one thing the iPhone is better at. And don't say it's the app store. The Pre won't release for another 6 months. The app developers can just as easily develop the same apps found on the iPhone for the Pre and more since the hardware allows for multitasking. And you know that the app developers will develop for the Pre. There's no exclusivity on apps for iPhone.
Why Apple apologists argue for missing features is beyond me. If you don't need to multitask, then don't. But it makes no sense to argue against it. Same goes for voice dialing, MMS, video recording, A2DP, proper navigation, etc. It's really comical reading some of the arguments against. LOL.
bring on the pre. I welcome it. I would like to go and check it out once its released and compare it to my iphone.. Only then will I truly know if it is cool or not
Running developer compiled C code (and C++, and Objective-C, and even supporting some number of unix & posix calls, and an OpenGL ES API for 3D games, and etc.)
And another: being a lot thinner.
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You didn't name things that were better, just different.
The Palm Pre runs java, not some proprietary code. So at most it's a wash with the iPhone. If anything, java is regarded as an improvement over compiled codes such as C++.
The iPhone 3G is 12.3mm and the Pre is 16.95mm (17mm). Difference of 5mm. But that 5mm allows for a removable battery. Plus, the iPhone's battery life sucks. I would gladly have the iPhone be a bit thicker for increased battery life. We don't know what the battery life is like on the Pre yet. If it is quite a bit more than the iPhone, then the extra thickness is worth it.
What world are you living in?
Sure you can do alot with java, but I've never heard of people preferring it when it comes to real apps.And the pre runs Javascript.
In what terms?
You think ppl are complaining too much about useless apps NOW......
False. The Palm Pre has not been advertised as running Java !
which was renamed from Oak...
maybe something else renamed from LiveScript instead...
a completely different beast.
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Palm don't have yet the developer site up. Also, your model fails. Look at iphone: there's no garbage collection.
I believe that palm ideia is to use Javascript more for the app interface, dom, server interaction. Some plugin for opengl and or precompiled objects in c++ can do the trick, since js engines do the object allocation and reclaim space carefully.
thicker? if you pull the keyboard you got a thicker phone, and btw is ergonomic.
Yes, it's javascript and not java proper. Yes, javascript runs under html. But what's your point? What does the iPhone do better? Games? Maybe. And that's about it. Apps like Pandora, Urban Spoon, etc. should all run under javascript fine.
I'll take the ability to multitask, MMS, record video, copy and paste, proper navigation, more useful camera with flash, removable battery, non-proprietary interface connector, etc. over the iPhone all day, every day. I can already get these features in a WinMo phone. However, the UI isn't as elegant as the iPhone's. But the Palm Pre looks to have the elegant UI of the iPhone AND the openess of WinMo. Advantage: Palm.
So I ask once again, why are some of you so against having the features mentioned above? Just because a feature is there doesn't mean you have to use it. I don't game on my iPhone but I wouldn't speak out against that ability. The iPhone is severly gimp'd. The hardware is capable minus the camera flash. There's no other reason than Apple being Apple for gimping the iPhone.
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So many other things that have been talked to death on all the Pre threads and the, "What you want in your next iPhone thread" and the "What don't you like about your iPhone thread," that really makes me wonder where you've been for 2 years.
Seriously, we need more vulgar and useless iFart applications?
You do have me laughing my @$$ off right now friend.