On Tuesday 10 June 2008 23:42:30 Robin Paulson wrote: > 2008/6/10 Ron K. Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [I trust this will not initiate a flame war.] Please? > > > > iPhone v2 announced today. I'd like to understand > > on a hardware basis ONLY (I grok the value of > > free and open source) how does > > the entry level $199 iPhone with 4GB > > compare with Freerunner GTA02. > > > > where I get lost is how much RAM iPhone > > has vs Freerunner. I realize I can buy > > i remember reading somewhere that the iphone's os can't run multiple > applications at once - sorry no source for this. did i get this right, > if i did, that's a major bonus to om/freerunner? >
in theory the os can multitask. its basically a variant of the bsd kernel and so on used in osx. jailbreaked current gen iphones multitask. but apple have but a limit on sdk based apps, claiming battery life reasons. instead, if one wants to liten for im traffic or similar, one sign up with a apple messaging server that will pass this on to the individual phone, kinda like a push mail service. so for a im client it will be: im network interface at app makers place -> apple message server -> iphone, where it will show up as one of 3 kinds of onscreen messages. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
