Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by orangecat on Sunday April 04, 2010 @05:25PM
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I was signed in using WiFi, and I normally have WiFi enabled all the time and get over 24 hours of battery life. Maybe some wireless chipsets suck too much power, but it doesn't appear to be a problem on the N1.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by tumult on Sunday April 04, 2010 @07:42PM
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Maybe we're doing something different, but I cannot get my Nexus One to stay alive for longer than 5 hours with an active net connection. It if it's a low-traffic connection (calm IRC channels, occasional email polling) it will last a day (same with my G1) but streaming radio, etc will leave it dead in a long afternoon.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by theBobMcCormick on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:45AM
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Ah.. Streaming radio. By active net connection I thought you meant email polling, IM, etc.
Playing streaming video will kill the battery pretty decently, but IMHO that seems fair. Your keeping the radio pretty busy, the audio hardware, the cpu, etc.
I'd actually like to hear from an iPhone user whether they can run Pandora or Last.fm for 5 hours straight without killing their battery either.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by tumult on Monday April 05, 2010 @12:28PM
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I'm an iPhone user as well, and it also kills the iPhone. the point was that on iPhone, 3rd party apps are not given the opportunity to do this without the user being aware (because it's in the foreground.) i've had a runaway android app kill my phone after it screwed up and started devouring resources in the background while it was in my pocket.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by theBobMcCormick on Monday April 05, 2010 @12:52PM
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The user would have to be aware of streaming audio. Also, as stated elsewhere in this thread, apps don't normally run in the background on Android either. I'm curious what app you believe killed your battery life in the background? That sounds... unusual.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by tumult on Monday April 05, 2010 @02:40PM
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Apps normally run in the background all the time in Android. I know which app it was (meebo) because I can view the stats afterwards. Also, to help alleviate some of your confusion, we are talking about background processes, not just streaming audio.
Re:Why the iPad and the iPhone don't support multitasking
by theBobMcCormick on Monday April 05, 2010 @04:02PM
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Apps only run in the background if they specifically register a background service. Usually this is when you click a button in the apps preferences like "update in background", etc.
Read this: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-wi...
The best way to save battery on an Android phone is to turn off WiFi unless you need it at some point during the day. iPhone will stop attempting to do push notifications and the background Apple apps will disconnect if the only available connection is WiFi.
I'd also like to point out that "I bet the app was poorly written" is exactly the situation Apple is currently avoiding until they are confident they have a reasonable technical solution to it.