+1. Many core Apple apps can multitask. The iPhone just doesnt let 3rd party apps do it.
Jailbreak your phone and a whole new world opens up to you. If not to multi-task, at least to get status icons on the top bar. Two Jailbeak/Cydia apps I would *highly* recommend for any tech or productivity-inclined person: 1. sbsettings - two-finger status bar touch functionality to slide out a customizable task tray. The tray can contain toggles for things like WiFi, BT, iPod, and many other extremely useful things. This is fantastic for managing functionality in terms of power use and over-all convenience. 2. StatusNotifier - status bar icons for new mail, sms, vm, etc. Immensily useful to always be able to see if you have unacknowledge communications while using any app. These are two things that I dont understand why the iPhone doesnt do natively. They are simple and small apps that dont harm the phones performance, and are yet immensly useful. For Jailbreaking, I recommend QuickPWN. They had a break for the 3.0 beta and are close to the fll release for 3.0. It is by far the easiest/fully-automated Jailbreak that there is. QuickPWN actually saved my iPhone from being bricked because of a legitimate 3.0 beta problem that otherwise would have gone back to Apple to fix. -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Mayo, Bill<[email protected]> wrote: > The timer/stopwatch does continue to work if you exit the application. > Likewise, the iPhone will continue to play your music if you exit the > iPod application and do something like access the browser. To prove > that these things are true, I just started a stopwatch, exited to iPod, > started a song, exited to Safari, loaded a web page, continued to listen > to the song, exited back to the stopwatch and saw that I spend 1:45 of > my life debunking this while still listening to the song (I was typing > this message at the same time, it needn't have taken that long). > > The thing that you should take away from that is that "no multi-tasking" > is a bit over-hyped. The iPhone absolutely can multi-task, Apple just > doesn't let developers do it. It's all about battery life. There are, > however, rumors that Apple is open to allowing select vendors run > background tasks and is in talks with them about it. I have no idea if > the rumors are true or will bear out any results. Again, you are free > to agree or disagree with the philosophy, but their goal is to preserve > battery life, and the reality of it is that it is pretty elegantly > handled. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:52 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: IPhone 3g <Nightmare> > > Except that on my winmobile device, I like to be able to have a > timer/stopwatch going while I check email... the music player going > while I'm surfing, etc... > > -sc > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:17 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: IPhone 3g <Nightmare> >> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Rod Trent<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > iPhones do not multitask, i.e.,. you can only run one app at a time. >> >> While I consider that a limitation myself, in all seriousness, from >> what I've seen, most users don't use multitasking, either. They just >> get confused at the prospect. >> >> But still, I agree, the iPhone's approach to multi-tasking seems >> like a return to the days of classic System and co-operative >> multi-tasking. On a phone running a BSD Unix core. Way to go, Apple. >> >> > iPhones are chained to iTunes. >> >> When I b*tched about this in another forum recently, some iPhone fan > >> said there was a package from Apple that did the management stuff the >> iPhone can do, without needing the iTunes kit. No experience with it. >> YMMV. >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
