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Windows Phone 8 (apollo)

and they've included true multitasking something i hated about wp7

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Screens up to 1280 x 768 (so standard 1280×720 available)
Multicore processors (engadget says up to 64)
External Storage on SD card
NFC
C++ native code
One platform for desktop/tablet/phone, porting apps from one device type easier than before. Full fledged NT kernel for coherent ecosystem.
Wallet function
IE 10, double HTML5 performance over WP7.5

A Lumia WP8 prototype handset was used openly during the press conference and its said that there will be a Lumia WP8 device launched the beginning of September (sept 5 tbe)

Windows 8 does not do "true" multitasking, though. They implemented it the same way iOS does - they added a set of services developers can use to run tasks in the background. You can't simply take an App and have it run in the background doing whatever you want.

Thank God current devices aren't being left in the dust.
Hopefully VOIP support will come with WP7.8. It's pretty much the only thing that I'm interested in.

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Originally Posted by areyounoob (Post 7953214)

Thank God current devices aren't being left in the dust.
Hopefully VOIP support will come with WP7.8. It's pretty much the only thing that I'm interested in.

Well they are being kind of left behind, thats why they're not getting the full windows 8 upgrade. But then again, Apple is probably the worst ounof all phone companies when it comes to supporting perfectly capapable devices.
I am with apple at the moment but i hope bb10 or wp8 will sweep me off my feet. If not theres always good ol' android

I don't think I'm missing out on anything.
App developers will cater to all of their users. They see the customers stuck in WP7.x so considering jumping ship for development in WP8 instead of WP7.x will just end in horrible returns.

Perhaps a year after launch it would be a reasonable move, but not now.

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Originally Posted by dangonay (Post 7953193)

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Microsoft brings true, background multitasking to Windows Phone 8 -- Engadget

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Well, Microsoft has officially left Apple as the only player in the Mobile field to not support real multitasking. With the next version of Windows Phone, background multitasking will be opened up to all devs, thanks to libraries provided directly by Redmond. During today's presentation two different background tasks were demoed, VoIP and location. The VoIP integration allows users to have calls come in, preferably via Skype if Microsoft has its way, without having the app running in the foreground and have them appear the same as a standard phone call. While watching for incoming calls is nice, a more commonly used feature is location monitoring. Now apps will be able to monitor location in the background while you perform other tasks. One by one, Microsoft is checking off boxes on our list of complaints about Windows Phone.

idk?

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background multitasking will be opened up to all devs, thanks to libraries provided directly by Redmond. During today's presentation two different background tasks were demoed, VoIP and location

You don't need "libraries" to write a multitasking App. Just skimmed over that Engadget article - seems a lot of people caught the mention of "libraries" and that this sounds a lot like how iOS does it.

Which isn't a bad thing.

Think about this. If there's one company who understands the hassles of not having multitasking (or relying on badly written Apps to "behave") it would be Microsoft. Remember Windows 3 with cooperative multitasking? It was the responsibility of the App to run for a portion of time, then "surrendering" to allow the next App to run and so on. Poorly written Apps would wreak havoc if they didn't "surrender" to allow the next App to run and hog all the processor time. People used to make fun of Windows and its version of multitasking (even the Amiga had preemptive). Windows 95 was a mixture of cooperative and preemptive while all current major OS's are fully preemptive.

Taking into account the history of MS and multitasking through its various OS versions I find it interesting they decided to go with a "services" based approach to multitasking instead of blowing things "wide open" and allowing any App free reign to run in the background.

Engadget should reword their article. Instead of saying iOS is the only one left without "true multitasking" they should have said "MS joins Apple in offering services based multitasking, leaving Android as the only vendor offering multitasking for any App".

I kind of LOL'd when the lady in the video said "No other phone can do this".

win 7.5 can't upgrade to win8...so fuck it

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Originally Posted by dangonay (Post 7953604)

ah i see thanks for that

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Engadget should reword their article. Instead of saying iOS is the only one left without "true multitasking" they should have said "MS joins Apple in offering services based multitasking, leaving Android as the only vendor offering multitasking for any App".

symbian :D

oh and Maemo/Meego uses real-time multitasking even better?