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Originally Posted by vmajor View Post
Re multitasking.

I disagree. There can be no compromise. Put tasks to sleep, lower their priority, make them release RAM etc., but moving away from true multitasking to some form of task switching or Appletasking (no, I am not being facetious, thank the visionary and charismatic Mr Jobs for that - he started the singlatasking on powerful platforms with NeXT, then original Apple OS (not true multitasking), finally letting go of that nightmare with OS X, only to go back to it with iPhone/iPad...and it is plain wrong).

Putting system wide constraints on what you can and cannot run at the same time is loathsome - and it is already done very well now on that other platform.

Getting back to N900 disappointments, well I for one cannot see much wrong with it the way I use it. I truly do see it as a PC. I make and receive perhaps 2-3 calls per day, but literally live online. N900 allows me to get away from my office and building and still maintain contact and productivity.

My three year old Nokia E65 is a much better phone than the N900, but it is also a much better phone than any of the modern touch screen superphones, so that point is moot. The best phone is still just a simple phone.

So again for the n+1 time, there are people that are rational and reasonable and not overly geeky/linux loving that genuinely like the N900. I personally think the N900 is great - with the few caveats like the bluetooth thing and lack of Ovi suite support - these two points REALLY p***s me off.

...and there are people that genuinely do not like or actively dislike the N900.

These are the facts and I am with the perceived "zealots" on this point; there really isn't much need to keep going in the same circle. There is a nice photo of a very dead horse sometimes used on another forum to describe the futility of such threads as this one.

V.
I think when you analyze these implementations (single tasking, web as apps, etc) as design concepts and take away the 'political' connotations behind it (oooh apple is bad! jobs is the devil!... which are not necessarily wrong btw). There are actual merits to be found.

You don't want to deal with runaway processes (or any other uncontrolled resource deprivation) on your cellphone, making it unresponsive when you need it or wasting away battery without you knowing.

You don't want a buggy RSS client to gobble up your data plan (and battery), especially whlie you're roaming. You can potentially get a phone bill large enough to buy a few N900.

Again, this is taking a step back to look at what's needed in a mobile phone. Not just simply taking 'desktop computing' and applying physical miniaturization to the traditional concepts.
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