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To: sylvester80 who wrote (8772)	8/25/2011 6:35:20 PM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 32692

Maybe you need to tell me what services you are running and what version of the OS. My Shift 4G came with Froyo, but I upgraded to Gingerbread recently (official HTC update with an updated flavor of HTC Sense). Fyi, I have no problems with speed or responsiveness, either. i typically only run a few services in the background (fairly innocuous ones like Yahoo Messenger). Nothing shows up on my running services list with a memory footprint greater than 10 MB. BTW, you don't need to read them, but it will give you a damn good understanding how true multitasking works on Android. iPhone does not even have "services" for background notifications God's sake.... Thanks for the links; interesting reads. I can only comment on my experience, but I never feel like I can safely leave an app in Android without wondering if I'll be able to resume it just the way I left it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Clearly, the following is broken in some instances: "If a user later returns to an application that's been killed, Android needs a way to re-launch it in the same state as it was last seen, to preserve the "all applications are running all of the time" experience. This is done by keeping track of the parts of the application the user is aware of (the Activities), and re-starting them with information about the last state they were seen in. "