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Willcom shows off Android prototype – multi-tasking on Android is a go

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 12:44 PM

Ever since Google blitzed the blogosphere with their Android and OHA announcements, we’ve been waiting on news of manufacturers tooling up their Android-based wares. It looks like Willcom, our favorite wacky-mobile-phone manufacturer in Japan have an Android-based reference board up and running. The image you see above is the Willcom reference board running Android on a FreeScale CPU.

Willcom shows off Android reference board running google maps and accepting a call - multitasking is a go

What’s interesting is that the image shows an incoming call while running Google Maps. Multitasking may not be as spectacular as we’ve come to expect from other OS’s but at least we have some pretty good evidence that Android will be able to do some multitasking.

[Via: Digital World Tokyo]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    the question that comes up a lot and why i said it doesn’t multitask, is the fact that you can’t switch between applications at will. i’ll have to wait until devices are out to praise or poo poo Android, but for now it isn’t impressing me.

  • Will Park

    Exactly. Multi-tasking on Android may not be what multi-tasking is supposed to be, but the fact that Android can run at least two applications simultaneously is a good sign. But, I’ll definitely be getting myself an Android handset – if only to find out how crappy the OS turns out to be.