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I've had no qualms about multitasking on my Hero. Switching between my browser and gchat is a matter of holding down the home key for 3 seconds and pressing on whichever icon I want to go to. Things that run in the background, such as uploads, leave a notification on the top when it's finished.

What's so bad about that?

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The management side- I have to have a Task Killer app running in the background to kill off all the random apps that wind up going. The problem on Android, to me, is more of a failure in caring about UI than a failure of technology- which is also my problem with the platform as a whole.

I have to have a Task Killer app running in the background to kill off all the random apps that wind up going

No, you don't. Just because an app shows up in a process list doesn't mean it's consuming resources. (Other than memory, and background processes are automatically killed as needed to free up RAM).

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-wi...

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