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iOS 5 Concept: Faster App Switching [Video]

iOS 5 Concept: Faster App Switching [Video]

Posted May 23, 2011 at 10:52am by
Jan-Michael Cart has posted a video demonstrating a quicker way to switch between apps similar to Full Screen Switching seen in Mac OS X Lion.

The concept involves holding the Home button down to enable a new set of gesture controls.


Take a look below...

Read More [via AppAdvice]


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stekhh
stekhh - May 25, 2011 at 4:01am
multitaskture from cydia can do that with just 1 hand
Ranmat
Ranmat - May 24, 2011 at 4:20pm
jailbroken users (including me) can have exposé with multifl0w
hamster
hamster - May 23, 2011 at 11:06pm
Have to agree with some of sentiment about being able use a single hand, not everyone uses one hand but most do. So in it's present form it wouldn't work but if you could hold the home button for a short period (longer to activate speech commands) to activate it, this would work with one thumb.
dancj
dancj - May 24, 2011 at 2:24am
Then you might as well just tap it twice and use the existing method.
dancj
dancj - May 23, 2011 at 1:38pm
Yeah - there's no way they'll go for a method that needs two hands.
ninocolato
ninocolato - May 23, 2011 at 12:47pm
i use my phone with one hand only .......... so this is not gonna work out. this guys have to stop thinking about the iphone as if it was a laptop!!! this is a phone people! screen is smaller( duh) and its suposed to be used with one hand only!!!!
NeHoMaR
NeHoMaR - May 23, 2011 at 12:32pm
Multifl0w
Tony
Tony - May 23, 2011 at 12:22pm
should have been this way from start...
noms
noms - May 23, 2011 at 12:20pm
I'm using my iPhone with one hand...
can-surmeli
can-surmeli - May 23, 2011 at 12:05pm
This ain't neither user friendly nor something stylish. Anyway. When iOS 5 comes out; it will blow our minds.
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