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#1174
Originally Posted by volt View Post
Y'all discussing semantics and how Android have afterthought tools to avoid the weaknesses of not having real multitasking. I don't care about this discussion at all. Why? Cause my Android devices keeps stopping my tasks, i.e it'll stop listening for incoming messages in client software. It's not real multitasking. It's not even very good at fast app switching unless you use third party software. Maemo had the upper hand here, and I'm not about to change my opinion on this until MY Android phone does as good a job as MY N900 did to keep MY software running.
I have the same opinion and experience : with the same softwares, documents and sites open in Android 4.0.4 ICS (Asus Transformer TF-101 dual core @ 1 GHz with 1 GB RAM), Nokia N9 (@ 1 GHz with 1 GB RAM), Nokia N900 (@ 600 MHz with 256 MB RAM + 768 MB of swap memory), only on Android I have sometimes softwares closed, web pages reloaded, documents back to the 1st page, videos restarted, etc. It is 10-20% of the cases, but it is very annoying and unpredictable. So I cannot trust Android "multitasking".
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