Portably Awesome?

[Codemonkey]

If we're in an X environment you're definitely in the green in terms of multitasking. As long as the RAM holds out, you'll have Firefox, a little notes program, IM and music with relative ease.

* 128MB of DDR SDRAM.


Firefox using about 100MB RAM. I think we need a small open source browser. :]

When there is no official option to multi-tasking someone should modify the OS. *Provied the OS is opensource like the gp2x.*



And the keyboard is one of the pro features of the pandora. I will definitely use it. I would be cool if there is a small IDE. But at the moment the only important thing is, that the pandora come out.

 

[AireTamStorm]

Firefox using about 100MB RAM. I think we need a small open source browser. :]

That would be Firefox 2. Firefox 3 is supposed to considerably lower memory usage.

If not, there are always other options like Dillo, the mobile konqueror that you see in the OPIE project, lynx, links and much more!

This goes back to my idea of "formatting" an SD card for the Pandora with the main partition, swap partition, and etc. Just get one of those high-test SD cards and use that for swap.

 

[Codemonkey]

Yes, but I think FireFox3 will have got memory leaks, too. Mabye 70-80MB RAM, because it have more features.
Other browsers are an alternative or mabye the choice! But because the low resolution I think a light browser should be better. Where you got everytime fullscreen just when you press START you come in the menu or sth.

We will see what the time brings. I could imagine very well for switching between the various programms with the 1,2...9,0 buttons on the top or with a combination like FN + 1,2...9,0.

 

[Tinnus]

On app switching and space issues, I imagine Ion would work wonders on the Pandora IMO Even if the interface is minimalistic, it optimizes screen space usage to the max and you could always keep a launcher (i.e.: pretty icons with shortcuts) application in an ever-lasting tab

I presume it would also reduce RAM usage.