Is there an app for multi-tasking like Palm Pre for Android? Or, is this being developed; coming in future Android versions?
Not really that good but it was developed for iPhone and it was a great.
So, Android, What do you say?
Just to keep things simple:
- All smartphones multitask. They have to. The phone is managed by an app. If the smartphone didn't multitask it wouldn't ring the phone if you were running another app. Likewise for the calendar, and the clock, and the... you get the point.
- The number of CPUs has nothing whatever to do with multitasking (except if the number is 0
). It is possible to write an operating system that runs on 2 or more processors and still doesn't multitask. I have no idea why one would write such a thing, but the point is that multitasking means sharing the CPU(s) among several concurrently running apps. If you want to know more about that, read a good elementary computer science book. The topic is really fascinating.
What I think you might mean, though, is that you admire the style with which WebOS manages the apps that are running. I agree with you there. The "card" metaphor was nothing short of a stroke of genius.
Android took a different approach. Rather than having the user manage the running apps, it attempts to so itself. Whereas WebOS at some point will tell you it can't run any more apps until you shut down one or more of them down, Android will pick a running app and kill it to make room for another one (its a little more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea).
I think you might be suggesting that you like the WebOS approach better. Will Android ever adopt a "card" system like WebOS has? Ask Google. It isn't technically impossible.
In the meantime, enjoy running Pandora, Google maps with turn by turn voice navigation, the phone, and whatever other apps your heart desires. Concurrently. Its a beautiful thing.