Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Multitasking demystified (reference: Nokia Symbian)


If you are using a Nokia phone for the past 250 years, you probably know that the operating system (OS) preferred by the company is Symbian. This operating series has seen a lot of upheavals and now many iterations later the latest Symbian OS is series^3, which is used on the new crop of Nokia’s touch screen phones like the Nokia N8 (introduced) and C7.
Symbian phones are known to be multitasking experts (if the phone has the sufficient hardware for the same). Multitasking is nothing but using different applications at the same time and your phone breezes through the similar to your computer.
For example, you can work on your document, listen to music and keep your gallery running in the background all at the same time. What the phone does is it allocates resources to the running application and keeps the idle application in the background. Let me explain this with a real-life scenario, if the mother was watching television and the 2-year-old kid suddenly cries for milk, most of the times, the mother doesn’t put off the television to feed her baby. The television plays in the background. Here only the priorities have changed. This is the most basic form of multitasking.
Always remember computers were modeled around humans and only the human brain can bring further innovation in computers to create Smartphone, tablets, netbooks, laptops etc. The only downside is that we should not become the architects of our own destruction.
Until then keep reading into Noobcentral every alternate day to get the simplified version of your day-to-day technology.  



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