We hear from sources that one of the 'niggles' of the multitasking in UIQ, that of an applciation returning to a "home" screen when you switch away to another application, will not be present in UIQ. To quote... "In UIQ 3.0 an application keeps the state the user left it in and does not automatically return to the base view." Now we just need the devices.
Thanks to the Psion/EPOC Mailing Lists for this one.
I, and I'm sure many others, have pushed UIQ people on this for quite some time now...I can even argue in plain Swedish to most of them...😊...good to hear that there are some positive signs though I haven't seen this information in specification form yet.
It was originally posted here
http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=179454#179454
I hope it is not "fixed", hopefully it will be a switchable feature - talk to any non technical user and they will tell you the would rather be back at the contacts list than on a contact record they used 15 minutes ago when they switch back to contacts. If you want a PC like phone then there is an America company that does that job - if you want a smartphone for "normal" people leave the switch back in UIQ.
registered wrote:It was originally posted here
http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=179454#179454
It was also posted by the same user to the Psion.Epoc digest, which is where I picked it up.
RealUser wrote:If you want a PC like phone then there is an America company that does that job - if you want a smartphone for "normal" people leave the switch back in UIQ.
Nope, the American company you are alluding to is completely worthless in doing this particular job. They've never been able to do it properly, elegantly and user friendly.
Instead, this is an application level multitasking feature which is intrinsically supported by Symbian ever since Symbian OS v1.0 and has for some reason - allegedly dating all the way back to the defunct Psion-Motorola Odin project - been deprecated in UIQ.
If you are in the midst of entering a contact or an appointment when you receive a call, you can go back to where you left off with the data still intact and the screens unchanged. That's user friendly for me.
That person was me.
I can confirm that the posting in My-Symbian was a direct copy of the email I got from UIQ in response to my email to UIQ's CEO - Johan Sandberg.
Wonder why it took them so long (5 months) to respond. Maybe they weren't sure ...
Alan Rabbitte
Dublin, Ireland