Multi-tasking is over rated...it's official & FastLaunch

Yes it is...Shaun McGill, venerable pda247 founder and staunch (well, for this week anyway) palm o/s user has stated so and therefore I believe it to be official. Of course, regular readers will recall that I have bemoaned in the past, on several occasions, my own inability to take "advantage" of this windows mobile feature which I suspect was down to years of previous palm useage...what you don't have you never miss and all that.

I've never rated it because I always felt it was a hardish feature to access on a win mob device. There was never just one button you could press to take you back to a previously opened application but rather it necessitated several presses and I ended up always thinking..."what's the point?"...it would be quicker to head back to the launcher. On my Centro however, when in an application like Resco Neeews reading an RSS feed I can go to a website link from there and then just hold down the "home" button on the Centro. From there I can pick "Neeews" and it will re-open at exactly the same spot. Bingo. Quicker and simpler.

Let's be honest here, how many times have you needed to have more than the 2 apps open at the same time? For myself, it is super-rarely which makes a palm application like this all the more attractive as it seems to fulfill that need to switch seamlessly between 2 apps on the likes of a Centro. Bang...press one key and you're back to the last app virtually and then another press and you're back where you started...sounds good does it not?

Perhaps the tides they are-a-turning for Palm as the Centro is garnering much praise for its no-nonsense approach to mobile computing and various ex-palm users, luminaries like Mr McGill and other stalwarts over at 247 seem to be returning to the palm fold. How good is that? It backs up what I was saying a few weeks ago...windows mobile devices look great on paper and tick all the right boxes specs-wise but I suspect a lot of current users, ex palm people, are just waiting for the moment/device to return to the greater ease of use of the  creaking palm garnet o/s.......perhaps the Centro is that "moment".