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2011-10-09 , 11:19
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Originally Posted by afaq View Post
am I correct to think the nexus prime / ice cream sandwich has a multi tasking view? I see an icon on the quick launch bar which showed a grid view. If this is indeed true then it changed things for me. Quick/effective multitasking is my top requirement from a device.
The grid icon is the icon that brings up the app tray--it's just a set of organized pages listing all the applications installed on the device.

Although, starting with Honeycomb there IS a button that shows you a list of open apps that are running so that you can immediately switch between tasks. (See: http://blogs.computerworld.com/17759..._3_0_honeycomb) This button still seems to be shown in that video--on the bottom right side of the screen... it looks like an overlapping windows icon--so my guess is that that's the way you'll switch between open tasks. (See a picture here: http://ces.cnet.com/2300-32491_1-100...s=0&o=10006142 )

You can see things in action under Honeycomb a bit better here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGIU2JX1U5Y#t=7m45s

Ice Cream Sandwich isn't out yet, technically, so it'll be hard to find a specific video on that task switching interface.

Originally Posted by oweng View Post
Apparently it does, it also looks like a mix of N900 and N9 UI.
Multi-tasking grid view, plus the option of adding widgets etc.

I have never been an Android fan, I use my N900 on a daily basis, and for the record I can afford to buy both but can't see the point of having 2 phones.

I suspect that as nice as the N9 appears (I have yet to hold one - thanks Nokia UK), the Prime has better specs, better support and significant developper interest...

Sigh, if only the N9 had come out in early 2011.
It's not a grid view of currently running apps... it's a scrolling list (at least it was in Honeycomb), but I didn't see it shown in the video at all. Everything I saw in the video had already existed in Honeycomb except for the theme colors and the smaller not-tablet-sized screen support through frames (which has been in Android's design spec since Andriod 1.5).
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