In article <n5ti45p65l7obh2889uf75d63tla4q2qet@4ax.com>, John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> >> More to the point, standard cell phones with far less resources do such
> >> multitasking easily.
> >
> >the iphone multitasks very easily and standard cell phones don't have
> >the horsepower to do cool stuff, such as multitouch or having a gpu.
>
> Shows how little you know about these phones.

the iphone very definitely multitasks and how many cellphones have
hardware such as a multi-touch interface, graphics coprocessor and a
multi-axis accelerometer, with dual core cpus expected next year?

> >> (iFans will
> >> of course claim it is everything, but then they don't know what a true
> >> RTOS actually is and why that matters.)
> >
> >it actually doesn't matter as much as you think it does, as the iphone,
> >google android and now the palm pre show.
>
> It actually matters a great deal, as shown by how much processing power
> and battery the iPhone needs to not even measure up to much lesser
> phones.

you have that backwards. the iphone has power and it is used. remind me
again how many cellphones have opengl es 2.0. also, the palm pre uses
the same cpu as the iphone, why no hatred for that?