Multitasking in Android has been appraised since its inception as one of the most efficient multi-tasking systems on the mobile platform. The webOS has always been better than android because of its friendly and intuitive UI. ICS has resolved this problem to a great extent—well, till the manufacturers keep employing the software and multitasking buttons.
For iOS it took a lot of updates before some semblance of multitasking capability was added, and even today it works only selectively. The Windows Mobile Platform (WP7) is another disappointment as it is poorer at multitasking and can’t even keep an IM running in the background. RIM from BlackBerry may have the deftest and advanced multi-tasking OS right now, as every single app keeps running in the background though it does affect the battery life.
This brings us to the HTC One X. The device has such poor memory management that once a new application is started, the previous one is deleted from memory. This makes it even worse than iOS. Multitasking on this device means loading apps again and again. The people at HTC seem to have forgotten the principle on which Android’s multitasking works—apps keep running in the background until memory runs low and the ‘older’ apps are deleted from the temporary memory to make room for the new ones that are loaded. Thus, users can run apps without reloading them. This is not the case in the One X and is a major turn off.
The device has 1 GB of RAM and taking into consideration the memory management capabilities of Android, killing apps to load new ones is just a bit too much off of the rocker. We wonder why HTC put in the 1 gig of RAM if they had to give the phone such a poor multitasking capability.
Via: Android Authority