latimes.com— The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isn't one of them.
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I take it you didn't read his stupid rant, those aren't annoying shortcomings, or shortcomings at all. He's bitching about impossible or unrealistic things that aren't practical or useful.
@gllopcHmm, let's see. - The other day I transfered a file from my phone to my house, I didn't have to keep ssh visible. - Applications such as qik can upload clips in the background while you go on your normal business. - GPS route recording can happen while I do other things- I can quickly jump on IM while a youtube video loads- Ah, let me mention FTP'ing, internet radio, with IM and IRC running while browsing the web again :]- etc etc etc.Battery and network resources utilization are no excuse. Those two will only improve with time. Give developers the freedom to innovate without dictating what they can or cannot do. Lack of multitasking is a huge drawback that Apple apologists love to brush off as a non-issue. Just because _you_ can't think of any other examples does not mean multitasking in a mobile device is not something desirable. Why do you need multitasking on your desktop? Imagine back in the 80s when all we had were a few kilobytes of memory, imagine if we used the same logic - "640k ought to be enough for everybody". We wouldn't be having this discussion.More and more applications that will benefit from the mobile's OS ability to do context switches will come as the hardware/batteries become more and more powerful. Brushing off Apple's reluctancy to include multitasking with their device as "Oh, there is no use for it" is horribly near sighted.
No, you don't. You unitask on your iphone in rapid succession. Unless you've jailbroken, in which case you do multitask for up to 3 hours at a time, before plugging in your iphone and letting it recharge.
winterspanJul 5, 2009
compared to what? The iPhone 3GS lasts 30-60% longer than the Pre doing the same tasks..
galaxylanderJul 5, 2009
I take it you didn't read his stupid rant, those aren't annoying shortcomings, or shortcomings at all. He's bitching about impossible or unrealistic things that aren't practical or useful.
loconetJul 5, 2009
@gllopcHmm, let's see. - The other day I transfered a file from my phone to my house, I didn't have to keep ssh visible. - Applications such as qik can upload clips in the background while you go on your normal business. - GPS route recording can happen while I do other things- I can quickly jump on IM while a youtube video loads- Ah, let me mention FTP'ing, internet radio, with IM and IRC running while browsing the web again :]- etc etc etc.Battery and network resources utilization are no excuse. Those two will only improve with time. Give developers the freedom to innovate without dictating what they can or cannot do. Lack of multitasking is a huge drawback that Apple apologists love to brush off as a non-issue. Just because _you_ can't think of any other examples does not mean multitasking in a mobile device is not something desirable. Why do you need multitasking on your desktop? Imagine back in the 80s when all we had were a few kilobytes of memory, imagine if we used the same logic - "640k ought to be enough for everybody". We wouldn't be having this discussion.More and more applications that will benefit from the mobile's OS ability to do context switches will come as the hardware/batteries become more and more powerful. Brushing off Apple's reluctancy to include multitasking with their device as "Oh, there is no use for it" is horribly near sighted.
tyr7beJul 6, 2009
No, you don't. You unitask on your iphone in rapid succession. Unless you've jailbroken, in which case you do multitask for up to 3 hours at a time, before plugging in your iphone and letting it recharge.
unimatrix0Jul 7, 2009
Problem is solved with a Mophie Juice Pack or Juice Pack Air.