MultiTasking for Apps

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

Well, I've had an Evo since 5/28, and I have to agree that it does NOT multi-task as well as WM. If I hit the home button while an internet page is loading, it does NOT finish loading in the background. When I return to Internet, it is back on the page I was leaving. It does some multi-tasking, but not nearly as much or as well as WM. I see it everyday in various ways.

Here is another example. Start the download of a large attachment you get (or send to yourself as a test). While it is downloading, navigate away. Then go back to email. It will have stopped downloading, and the download arrow will be there again without the spinning clock. This can be a real pain if you are downloading a 10MB file. You have to leave it on that screen, AND manipulate the volume button or touch the screen in a blank area or do something else that won't take you away from that screen, to keep it from falling asleep, or you have to START ALL OVER.

So to those of you naysayers to the poster who said it doesn't multi-task all that well, I naysay back at you, because it's the truth. Test my examples out for yourself. WM didn't behave that way.

Well, not to be argumentative, but android does multitask flawlessly and, might i add, WWAAAYYYYY more efficiently than WM. You are using an incorrect definition of multitasking. Android assigns cpu priority based on parameters built into the app itself, whether or not your using it, and what other apps are running. Gmail was designed to be a background process that you could occasionally check. Android quite intentionally caches the state of gmail(stops active data connection and remembers where you were in the list or what email you had open) to make whatever app you are switching to run at its best capacity.

The same goes for the browser. I cannot think of a single time i have taken the browser out of focus while i was waiting for a page to load. Android figures "hell, this guy isn't looking at the browser anymore. I'll save battery power and cpu strength. I'll remember where the guy WAS and stop using the data connection so he can get the most use out of the app he'd evidently prefer to be using right now", whereas Windows Mobile is like "HERPP DERP Everything on full blast all the time! My processor can handle ALL OF Y-crash"

Download visual task switcher from the market. These apps are still running, but in a cpu and battery-saving cached state because you aren't using them. This is the entire reason android runs more smoothly than WM and, by extension, why Android is superior in every way.

EDIT: addendum: The reason you think WM multitasks better is because windows mobile doesn't know how to schedule a cpu, which is why windows mobile needs a task manager to be even halfway usable.