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Windows Phone 7 multi-tasking and computer processing primer

Windows Phone 7 multi-tasking and computer processing primer

| May 24, 2011 | 54 Replies

Advertisements I know guys, I haven’t written much if anything lately, and even less about Symbian lately (partly because I no longer use it and thus can’t speak much to its merits in the present tense) but one of  the common criticisms that was leveled at iOS when it introduced its version of “multitasking” was […]

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Symbian was ditched – for good reason

Symbian was ditched – for good reason

| April 13, 2011 | 128 Replies

I know this post is going to lead to a lot of derision from readers but to be perfectly honest, brutal honesty is necessary from time to time. Yesterday, Nokia announced their update to Symbian, named Anna which brought to the platform a number of key improvements including a new browser, updated homescreen animations, the […]

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Windows Phone 7 doesn’t multi-task? Right………..

Windows Phone 7 doesn’t multi-task? Right………..

| March 19, 2011 | 23 Replies

One of the complaints leveled at the Windows Phone 7 operating system and one of the main points used to vilify Nokia’s decision to switch their primary strategy to Windows Phone is the absence of multitasking. For many users, myself included, it’s absence is much more than an annoyance especially when one considers that user-facing multitasking is […]

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What Symbian features could you not live without?

What Symbian features could you not live without?

| March 1, 2011 | 49 Replies

A lot has been made of Nokia’s recent decision to eschew their current smartphone ecosystem strategy in favor of a Microsoft based approach. Having done a detailed impressions post and published a list of my gripes with the current state of the Windows Phone software and ecosystem, I felt it’d be important to gauge the […]

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Video: Nokia N8 multitasking and new samples

Video: Nokia N8 multitasking and new samples

| August 31, 2010 | Reply

I’m sure you have seen other videos about the Nokia N8’s multitasking but this one is recent (august 27 ). In this video the N8 multitask 15 applications. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh9AbCjIg_4] Here’s a new sample video, thank you Keith for the tip. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3xSJv1Sfw] I’m guessing these are video taken with the Nokia N8. TheSheridan01 on youtube and […]

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Video: Nokia N8 and REAL multitasking

Video: Nokia N8 and REAL multitasking

| May 29, 2010 | Reply

ahmedp800 has posted a new video demonstrating REAL multitasking on the Nokia N8. Something Maemo and Symbian users have been enjoying for several years now. The Symbian multitasking interface as you know has been given a slight face lift. You have snapshots of running apps instead of just icons and they’re aligned in a linear […]

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Video: Nokia N900 multitasks all installed apps and still hungry for more!

Video: Nokia N900 multitasks all installed apps and still hungry for more!

| November 21, 2009 | Reply

At the onedotzero event, I remember trying to get the N900 to crash with low memory errors or slow down. I couldn’t. MySymbian proves this in the video below where the N900 is pushed to multitask all available apps. Where most others would have frozen, crashed or killed other applications to open a new one, […]

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