Thread: I got an iPod Touch (review compared to an N810)
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2008-03-27 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by sondjata View Post
I have to concur here. Yesterday due to work I "had" to use my N800 to play tunes. So I used xmms (which has it's own problems which would require another post altogether) to play some mp3's I have. Every now and then the music would stop. I finally figured out that it was refreshing the RSS feeds. Then I made the mistake of checking my blog stats. Stutter city. I even think the music slowed down. The processor spiked and then the battery was done.
Everyone else has different configs on their IT, I am sure and the memory available will vary.

But for me, before I go to sleep, I always have Canola in the backgroud playing my mp3's, while I open 2 browser windows - checking out my facebook page, and other news sites on it, as well as refreshing my Omweather applet to have the latest weather forecast for the next day ready, and am also downloading the new podcasts for the day on Canola as Canola plays my mp3's during this whole session.

Seems quite a lot of tasks, but again as long as you keep it within the contrains of the processor and memory availability, its all good. The fact that it supports multi-tasking is the factor here. Of course there will be a limit to multi-tasking practicallity on a small 400MHz device.

Then again, if I started A2DP hack to on, and try listening to music over BT, then crash, bang, burn - everything comes to a standstill. But that is a documented fact of the A2DP hack.

Yes, the built-in RSS reader is also very memory and CUP cycle intensive, so much so that I do not user it. Rather I open my Google reader page.
Again as I said, to each user thier own vagaries of IT usage.