Thread: N900 - My experience: It is better than iPhone...
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kjmackey is offline kjmackey
2009-11-25 , 17:56
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Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
Also, remember that the N900 keeps both applications fully running for you. That way, if you want to back to your music player for some reason your browser continues to work, it doesn't close. In the iPhone if you go back to the music app the browser has to be restarted. So, so I wouldn't say that the N900 and the iPhone play music and browse the web at the same level, the N900 is better.
Well, the point about the iPhone's browser needing to be restarted isn't entirely accurate. If you have been browsing using the iPhone (yes, on only the kinds of pages the browser is capable of rendering) and switch to the music player because you want to change playlists or something, you need to go back to the home screen to relaunch the browser. That's true.

Yet, the page(s) you were looking at is(are) still there. Select one and pick up where you left off. This seems analogous to returning to the task switcher and selecting one or other open browser page on the N900.

There is some multitasking on the iPhone. Of course, only for apps supplied by Apple, and only some of them. And that got to be a huge annoyance after a while.

I look forward to not having that restriction on my N900 - sometime late next month *sigh*