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iPhone Concept Uses Cover Flow for Multi-Tasking

iPhone Concept Uses Cover Flow for Multi-Tasking

Posted October 13, 2009 at 12:28am by iClarified
A new iPhone concept video uses cover flow to manage multi-tasking on the iPhone.

Swedish design firm Ocean Observations created the video and suggests that a cover flow panel replace the dock at the bottom of the Springboard. You could then use cover flow to flip between currently running apps. You could tap to open an app or drag it out of the panel to quit.

A while back Ocean Observations also created a video to show how expose might function on the iPhone.


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aatkco
aatkco - October 13, 2009 at 3:34pm
we already talk about this idea before NO MULTI TASKING WILL BE AVAILABLE EVER UNTIL APPLE IMPROVES THE BLOODY BATTERY
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Hmm?
Hmm? - October 13, 2009 at 6:20am
Does anyone think an iPhone can actually do this? I mean, with all the other backgrounded apps people are already running, I don't think the iPhone has enough memory to do this
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Jay
Jay - October 13, 2009 at 1:44am
LOVE IT! This would be a great way to run multiple apps at the same time. Apple should take this into consideration for iPhone OS 4.0
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saguerra
saguerra - October 13, 2009 at 9:16am
Apple developed Push Notifications so they didn't have to use multi tasking. I can´t see this coming from Apple!! But i love it!
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saad
saad - October 13, 2009 at 12:32am
Simply wonderful
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