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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Darwin already runs on x86 and ARM so it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Apple would be working on this internally for the entire OS. It must be obvious that OSX already runs on ARM. It is cal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Exactly. Cell phones and other digital cameras of this type do not have a shutter. They imitate the effects of the shutter digitally. To do an article about a cell phone camera and imply that it's …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Of interest to you then; http://www.thebestdigital.com/nokias...-pressure.html They are are the way down even their home market. All they post is poor guidance, and their stock is a fraction of what it w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chopper Well there was an ad for the G5 being the world's fastest personal computer which was taken off air in the UK because Apple couldn't substantiate the claim. 2003 if memory serves. There was also the one abou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Not too many people seem to care much about Nokia launch days. That's not just here. Maybe in Europe somewhere. Yeah, the US lives in a little deluded world all of it own... http://tnerd.com/2010/06/09/n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by winterspan Similar to the article about the antennae issue from Price Mclean, this one misses the point and (I feel) is intentionally conflating two separate issues in order to downplay the problem with (a subset of?) …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone A bit off subject but for those of you who care about user agent strings, there is no difference between iPhone 4 and iPhone 3Gs with the latest iOS. Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; e…
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Of course there is the minor matter that every other 3g phone on the planet already does video calling. It is another standard part of the 3GPP specs that Apple fails to implement.
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Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 Same MP != quality. And good lord, the quality in ANY camera phone is probably never going to be a point and shoot simply because of the size of the sensor. And a point and shoot will never be better than a D…
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Quote: Originally Posted by idanceapps When you are multitasking - how do you close an app? I have iphone 3g. I was very tempted to upgrade to 3GS, not anymore. . . Rather just wait for 4th gen and have new firmware and hardware additions - fr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shubidua AFAIK, the lack of a 3G chip is the issue. I hate to tell you this, but every other phone can do MMS with only a GSM chipset . You don't need 3G. It was just an arbitrary decision by Apple that they didn't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 OK, if you two are so smart and there is no impact by having multiple applications running in the background, why don't desktop OS's just load every app on your machine as they start up so you can just switch a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Then your phone must be powered by fairies and unicorns because even the android lovers on TWIT sheepishly admitted that multitasking seriously affected their battery life. Really, it's a pretty simple concept…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Not sure what you're saying here. Obviously video streaming isn't going to be a background process, which is what we're talking about. An inefficient foreground process is another matter, but far more linked …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell What's the point of running an app in the background ifs doing absolutely nothing? The reason this is such a problem is because every software programmer is not of the same caliber. Some programmers are goo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGuessSo I don't think so. I would bet that it gets swapped out to the flash memory. That doesn't make much sense, flash is slow, really, really, really slow.
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell They did explain it. The apps use built in API's that only allow the apps to use minimum system resources to perform its job. So when Pandora is playing in the background its using an audio API that only a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jahonen What on earth are you on about? It's not the radio. If the cellular radio of iPhone 1.0 could do cellular data, it could do MMS. MMS is retrieved as a regular data download after being notified of its existance…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGuessSo I bet you are correct. Although having every app's state saved would tend to chew up a lot of storage if you have a lot of apps. I would guess the app state is only stored in RAM. Basically the app gets no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chronster Yes! Thank you. Finally someone with some sense. What I find drains the battery the most in terms of apps running in the background is anytime the radio is used. It's NOT THE CPU. Even when an app is usin…