Will the iphone 3.0 OS offer a similiar feature like "Activity card" on the Palm Pre?

[Inspired]

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No, it will not. The iPhone and the Pre use significantly different OS's and the iPhone is quite a lot worse at multitasking than the Pre.

 

[docprego]

No, it will not. The iPhone and the Pre use significantly different OS's and the iPhone is quite a lot worse at multitasking than the Pre.

The iPhone is not worse at multitasking, in fact it can do it quite well. It's just that Apple has made a deliberate decision to only allow a few specific instances of it to occur. For example you can listen to the iPod while using Safari, you can view photos while on a phone call, and you can use the email app while on a phone call, among many other examples.

Basically it is two different philosophies, Palm believes that the OS should multitask at everything it does, Apple simply does not.

 

[pugnut]

The simple fact that you can not be on a call and surf the web on the Pre is a joke. How is that enabling multitasking

 

[toneloco2881]

The simple fact that you can not be on a call and surf the web on the Pre is a joke. How is that enabling multitasking

That's more of a limitation of the current CDMA technology that the pre operates on, rather than some design flaw in the phone itself. The pre can do both while on wi-fi however. Kind of like the original iPhone...

 

[kdarling]

The simple fact that you can not be on a call and surf the web on the Pre is a joke. How is that enabling multitasking

This also won't be true on the GSM version.

 

[Carniphage]

Consumer Multi-tasking

Customer: Which phone is best?
Salesman: The Palm, it has multi-tasking
Customer: What's that?
Salesman: You can browse the web while listening to Pandora!
Customer: Huh?

or

Customer: Which phone is best:
Salesman: The iPhone, it has a high performance GPU and OpenGL
Customer: Say what?
Salesman: You can play real videogames on it.
Customer: Cool!

C.