Thread: How many of you still use N900 as main phone?
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2013-02-27 , 00:12
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Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
But ya'll have to realize how the OS is not only running the apps, but does a huge deal of stuff in the background, small processes firing and doing work here and there (network communications, sensor monitoring for ambient light, among many other things).

It's not like you start an app, and then it has full access and control over one core.
I understand it. And the background processes will be the death of me.
On Windows, there are 68 processes altogether, and of them, and recognise only a quarter: others are unknown parts of operating system, such as, ten processes "svchost.exe". If a stealthy virus called itself "svchost.exe", I wouldn't notice him...
On Maemo, there are background processes, guarded by the watchdog, such as modest (email client), Calendar, image-viewer, browser, rtcom-messaging-ui, rtcom-call-ui, osso-addressbook, camera-ui. I understand that it is so that they would start faster, but I should be able to have a choice. Where is the list of the processed started automatically and guarded by the watchdog determined?
Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
People need to learn what the hell they are talking about! Every once in a while I lose my nerve when reading all the crap that's flowing in these threads.
I understand. But it's an oversimplification: he just points out how, despite better hardware, the software is worse, less capable.
It's not like the software has more background processes running: Maemo already has a lot of network communications, and ambient light sensor, and magnet-sensor for kickstand, and sensor for camera-open-or-closed, et cetera. It's not like the new smartphones have magnetometer, barometer, gyrometer, and a dozen of other sensors running at all times.
Though, this Casio_G'zOne_Commando does seem ... interesting (ruggedized to military standard MIL-STD-810G). Features such as a compass (Earth Compass), pedometer (Walking Counter) and thermometer, and apps such as Tides, Sun/Moon, Star Gazer...
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