Thread: I got an iPod Touch (review compared to an N810)
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dasickis is offline dasickis
2008-05-06 , 15:56
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Originally Posted by MoridinBG View Post
The bad:
-Single tasking. What more can I say. I almost feel nostalgic about the DOS days.
I actually learned, recently, using my friend's iTouch that it's not really single tasking, it just allows one screen to remain focused (which, for all practical purposes, is single tasking), but in the background the app continues to operate. For example, I was in chat then I switched out to the home screen and started using a calculator then went back to chat and all the IMs his friends sent, in the mean time, were there. I'm not sure if the app has to explicitly tell the iPhone/Touch to keep it alive, but it did for that app (and maybe the others (?)). This might be common knowledge but until I used the Touch I figured it just exited out of whatever app you were last using.


Originally Posted by MoridinBG View Post
-Relativly simple applications. Not that I need Photoshop up and running, but I haven't found anything really spectacular aside all that jailbreaking stuff, a few addictive games and one great last.fm client. The community around this platform is relatively new to the Free/Open Source idea, the Official API is a little bit restrictive and came relatively late for the big software vendors to start releasing stuff and existing FOSS needs to be extensively ported to the open API, which is far more complicated than just recompling stuff for the ITT or even hildonizing it.
But your last comment about portability is the biggest reason I'm with the n810, I just wish the software was more polished (i.e. not direct ports from desktop software).
Last edited by dasickis; 2008-05-06 at 16:00.