I’m really groovin on the new iPhone 32GB. Sweet, slick, and plenty fast. I have almost 2GB of apps – that’s about $500 worth of iTunes App Store. A bunch of dinero…
I didn’t enjoy reupping my contract to get a deal. I mean, what’s a deal when you’re paying retail? It’s definitely worth it though. Much faster. Much bigger. And the 3G beats my old 2G iPhone. The area where the iPhone continues to let me down is the lack of multitasking. So, get this. Steve-o is bragging about the iPhone being Mac OS X and all that. Last time I looked Mac OS X multitasked – well. The iPhone hardware is apparently just not able to allow developers to build apps and then run them multitasking.
Sure, no big deal if you just play games on your phone… but how about if you want to receive IMs? Or tweets? I could go on. So, instead of juicing up the hardware and allowing the iPhone to run many third party apps, Apple has built a multimillion dollar notification service that mostly works. Now developers can write custom software that caches updates, notifies Apple’s notification servers that they have an update for you, and then it will arrive on your phone. Then you can start the application and get the update. Sounds nifty until you consider that every other smartphone out there multitasks and allows developers and 3rd party applications to run in the background. On my old Blackberry I ran the Facebook app, email, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Blackberry Messenger, and a handful of other apps well and all at the same time. Oh, and my email was true push. It came to me, not me to it.
This is painful for me. I love my iPhone, but it doesn’t love me enough to multitask my life. What should I do?
Chck out Unlocked iPhones here.
