Hi guys,

I have created this thread solely for chiming in possible improvements to the iPhone os. I was using my iPhone the other day, when I suddenly thought of several stuffs that could change the iPhone as much as the AppStore did.

One of the ideas is to tackle the multitasking issue, while apple has push, and jb has backgrounder, none provided an easy approach to true muiltitask.

Since mobile is limited in processing speed, and the pre has proven multitasking can be quite a resource hog, a possibility I can think of is to limit multitasking to 4.

Which brings me an excellent tool in os x resembles what I thought of. Spaces. Make iPhone go into spaces, when a certain action is performed, and u can hv a max of 4 apps at once.

As to why multitasking? Here is why. First, downloading tracks in tap revenge, in app purchase downloads, a text message comes in when u are playing games and a quick switch to safari whilst YouTube is loading.

One more incredible function to add would be something similar to irealsms quick reply (would be godsent).

I would like to hear what you guys have to say.

This post has been edited by wahkiz: Jul 14 2009, 08:42 PM

Text msg is one most important app for me as iphone user. when there is no coverage in some location, the msg will not be sent and due to that, i need to recheck the msg status every time to reconfirm my msg successfully sent. most phone automatically resent after it got coverage. apple somehow can change this.

I agree multitasking is much needed on the iPhone, but u see, wudnt it be making da phone slow n wud cause it to crash more often? Then we'll be back to da part whr ppl wud complain y is it so inefficient n all tat?
Or perphaps apple is alredi working on a solution to tis n wud take time to perfect it n release it the apple way. Fast. Easy. Hassle free. Just like da tethering ting. Back then ppl were all wondering y apple has not cm up with an option yet n hv to use these pdanet n all tat. Those were troublesome compared to da one which apple released.
and da SMS part, bitesms is doing a real good job by providing quick compose n quick reply. Maybe apple wud pick it up n use it in future releases. Tat wud be real cool.
I'm wondering if they wud do smting abt delivery report as well.

crazy thing to be honest.

AFAIK, global iPhone network carriers like O2 UK, optus, virgin et cetera, do not actually offer delivery reports as part of their SMS system. believe it or not!

I thot tis delivery report ting was phone dependant.? No ka!!?
The phone sends a text, carrier replies with a unique ID and the phone chooses to display it or not hence giving da option of delivery report on or off..
I read a small post up abt tis issue. I'll dig it up n post it here.

nope! it is carrier dependent (this one i can confirm from my years using other networks)

during my years in the UK, i was with vodafone, O2 and orange; O2 doesn't support delivery reports (though they might have enabled them now)

over in australia, optus and virgin don't support them whilst '3' does (conveyed by my brother)

when i was with maxis, i use that unique combination code to enable delivery reports via the iPhone.

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Jul 15 2009, 12:09 AM

agree tat sm carriers mine not support it..but even the da iphone has 2 be prepared 2 receive such notifications....
this taken from bitesms forums

Before make it multitasking,doesn't any one think about battery life? I assume the speed is smooth, ur job can done pretty well,but it will drain Battery within few hours if few multitasking apps running together + IM push.

I think that shouldn't be a problem if the phone's OS is smart in managing the usage of background apps. Most of the time these apps sit there and wait for the push notifications (i.e. IM, Email, Facebook etc).

I've been a blackberry user before, and they have the capability to run many apps at once, at the expense of some performance drop after running more than 7-8 apps. But never really affect the battery life so drastically.

Yes, battery life can be affected, but the effects can be minimized by good management and optimizations. One possibility is to put priorities to the main program running, and the ones on the background will be run with limited resource.

Finally, good management of background process can be done by the idea I proposed at the top, which is limiting to 4 only. If you used before spaces on a mac, then you know that the iphone equivalent may have 4 spaces to run an app, and you can deactivate any of the spaces at some point of time.

Yep, that's what I meant by management of the apps. Naturally non-active apps are given less priority than the currently active apps.

Btw, I saw this earlier (I might be not very updated, but ah well): yet-another-iphone-patent

Actually do u notice that iPhone already have multitasking, you could surf internet via safari while you turn on iPod. Or SMS and iPod.

super ultra long lasting battery, super fast processor, ultra smooth animation, multitasking, same size and same weight, apple, go do it.

then we are happy.