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Originally Posted by Barnes
The problem with full blown multitasking is there is limited resources on a mobile phone and it is difficult to provide a user with a way to know which applications are shut down vs still running in the background.
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Maybe early on but no so much anymore, I have an app called Taskiller on my Hero that shows how much memory you have left. You can tap the app shortcut to kill all processes or use the main button to see whats running and kill on app at a time. Pretty handy actually.
Seems phones are getting better at it anyways. One of the newer phones has a 1Ghz processor which could handle a number of apps and a ton of on board memory. Even with the one I have now, I can chat on the phone, d/l new emails with large attachements and even play video with no problems.