Pandora 3.1 brings multitasking

By on Jun 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Software June 21, 2010

Pandora 3.1

You can’t get your hands on iOS 4 just yet, but rest assured that when you can, Pandora will be ready for you. In an app update released today, Pandora added the multitasking capabilities that the iLoving masses have been waiting for. Of course, Android, webOS, and BlackBerry users are unimpressed by this; having had it for what seems like years. But hey…try to be nice to those iPhone users out there, it is a big day for them.

UPDATE: iOS 4 is out in the wild. If you’re interested, and we can’t imagine why you wouldn’t be if you are an iPhone owner, go and grab it!

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  • RoBoBear

    1st!

    • Grady

      asshole.

  • SirMeow

    “you were na iPhone owner” spellcheck!!!

  • palomosan

    Wow, so Pandora is now doing multitasking, Wow.

    I’ve been doing that on my Droid and Droid Incredible.

    • C. Bess

      Chill, iPhone has plenty of software capabilities that the Android will drag its feet to get.

    • stickyd

      You know what your Droid and Droid Incredible don’t do………….allow you to browse the internet and talk at the same time! That’s an epic failure! Back to your hole, troll!

      • Steel

        Yes, but your AT&T contract won’t allow you to talk and, well, nothing, at the same time!

      • stickyd

        Tired and old complaint. You’re one of the many idiots that have never even used AT&T, hear the dropped call complaint from someone on a blog site, and throw out that excuse every chance you get. I’m in Charlotte and travel all over the Southeast, and AT&T’s 3G speeds and coverage are excellent in these areas. In fact, they smoke Verizon b/c I used to be with Verizon up until last year.

        You Droidboys are complete tools. Now go play in the street!

      • Steel

        On the contrary, my friend, I had AT&T for years before switching to Verizon and realizing that cell phones were actually supposed to work! My brother tried the 3GS when it was released last year, for about 3 days, before handing it back to the store. We’d hoped their service had improved but it was still horrid in NE GA where we lived.

        Years of salivating over an iPhone turned happy when the Incredible was released. So now, yeah, I am a big proponent of Android. I don’t think they’d even have a chance if Apple hadn’t happily collected fat subsidy checks for keeping AT&T afloat while snubbing the largest carrier out there. Now, I think they’ll lose major share eventually.

        Glad to hear AT&T works for you, it simply didn’t for me or anyone else I know. Even the friends I have who kept the iPhone do so while acknowledging the service compromise.

      • destardi

        You’re the dumb ass.

        1)I’ve had multitasking since last November. Wow, this feature is old.

        2)The *network* doesn’t allow surfing porn while speaking to your mom, *not* the software. YOUR software stopped you from multitasking.

        Get it straight.

  • TONY

    My BB was doing this way before an iPhone was even created. But I am glad it came out now, because my iPhone 4 looks better than your POS Android devices anyday! BOYB – BRING YOUR OWN BOOYA!

    • meh

      lame!

    • Theodore Donald ‘Donny’ Kerabatsos

      *BYOB
      but yeah good attempt

  • jfa

    Finally. The revolutionary upgrade to multitasking haha

  • Donv69

    Stupid that applications need to be updated to handle multitasking. Isn’t this like going back to WIndows 3.1?

    • justme

      it sure was… the revolutionary iphone lmfao.. its a joke they take technology from other manufacturers stamp some half eaten fruit on it and call it inovative… i ask for 1 thing the jesus phone doest that no other smart phone does

      • Donv69

        What pisses me off the most is some developers will most likely not see the benefits of updating their apps and so we’ll be stuck with some refusing to multi-task.

      • C. Bess

        Once you build it for 4.0 you gain multi-tasking support. Rather the dev implements to take advantage of certain features is up to them. But just by them click “build” against ios4 sdk, it gets multi-tasking.

    • stickyd

      it’s actually quite simple and is what every dev has to do anytime any phone updates it’s software. The only apps that really have to update are the ones that want access to the 7 core location items Apple has granted to allow multitasking.

      I swear, you people will complain about everything. The iPhone finally allows multitasking and now everyone is saying “about time” or complaining that it’s too hard. WTF. Get a life!

    • Carmen

      OK, so a new feature comes out that wasn’t out before when an application was build and you are complaining because some code needs changed to get it to work? I have dozens of applications on my phone and, on average, about one a day gets an update. It’s not a big deal. In my opinion, that is just looking hard for something to complain about.

      @justme

      Name one real thing that Apple claimed that they invented that really was on another phone that was sold to the public and not just on a prototype. You won’t be able to find one. Your verbiage portrays such clear hatred for the iPhone and Apple that it’s hard to listen to what you say. The real joke is anyone that listens to you.

  • darko

    With the new capped plans offered by AT&T is streaming music on Pandora an easy way to go over your data cap?

    - BlackBerry user thinking about making the switch to AT&T for the latest iPhone

  • BDot

    Despite the fact that you can’t call hardly anything the iPhone does “revolutionary”…you have to give them credit for pushing certain tech lexicon into the mainstream.

    Now users are going to start asking if their new Windows 7 computer includes “multitasking because their iPhone does it.”

    Haa.

  • FoodTard

    It’s so funny/sad this is news: ‘Pandora for iOS can now play in the background’

    I wanted this feature in 2007 with the 2G.

  • skyy_flyer

    YAY! About time, I’ve been so sick and tired of having to close down Pandora on my Incredible… oh wait, nevermind, even Blackberry has had that groundbreaking feature for how many years now?

    • stickyd

      I bet you love being on a phone call and hoping right over to the internet to get directions or information for someone? Oh wait, you can’t surf and talk at the same time!!!! HA! That’s the most important multitasking feature and you don’t have it! FAIL!

      • destardi

        You really are just bitter, aren’t you? Drop the iphone and just give in.

  • jonathan

    woohoo, nice one Pandora! Listening to Beatles music while surfing the web. So far this is the best and painless upgrade for the Iphone. Apple takes its time, but the result is the best. Nothing like the solidity of one phone, one manufacturer, one OS and I’m not mentioning the one carrier cause thats the only weakness.

    • w00t

      Who are the Beatles?

  • stickyd

    What many people don’t realize is how Apple’s way of multitasking doesn’t slow other processes down and doesn’t drain your battery like other phones do. I’ve had the iOS4 for over a month and works great! You can barely tell any difference with battery life while running apps in the background. The fast-app switching is nice too. Once again, Apple isn’t always first at implementing something considered “common”, but when they do it, they do it well! I constantly hear Android users complain about the shitty cut and paste implementation of their phones. Apple waiting, did some R&D and introduced an excellent cute and paste feature. Same goes for multitasking and it’s folders feature. Well done Apple. The haters will continue to hate…..no matter what!

  • MacMan

    Wow multitasking. Let’s throw a big conference for this. Oh wait they already did. :( . Iphone was great. Now it’s just trying to keep up.(not in sales because that kills all the droids). I wanna know when you drop the new iPhone which piece of glass is gonna break first ? Better get that insurance kids.

    • justme

      @ $14 a month

  • craphos

    sorry but winmo has multitasking and work very well without draining the battery or slowing down. it’s up to your device/phone

    • Carmen

      Maybe, but isn’t WinPhone7 not allowing multitasking? That’s kinda weird in my opinion.

  • RoBoBear

    So does using Backgrounder from Cydia drain your battery more than iOS’ multitasking feature?

    • stickyd

      Cydia drains the battery very badly! That’s what’s so great about this new OS. 99% of phone users only want multitasking to listen to audio, run a navigation app or load a webpage or application in the background. The fast app switching allows you to pause your other apps and then return to exactly where you left off. I think it’s a brilliant way of not draining your battery and affecting the processing power! However Droidboys will continue to complain and hate b/c that’s what they do well!

  • asher

    @RoBoBear,

    yes. backgrounder kills your battery because it keeps the full app running in the background.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Pocatello Idaho, USA

  • asher

    @craphos,
    I call BS. winmo is terribly slow before multitasking and then even worse once you start using it.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Michael Jones

    So you have to press the Home button twice?

    “press press”
    :D

  • tallperson117

    Lol from an Android user to all you apple usesrs out there, congrats! And welcome to the world

  • Jake

    Multi-tasking radio/media app lol…….

    bahahahahaa

    how lame is that friggin ios, this is a joke isn’t it?

    Two button press’s required, isn’t that a little hard for most of the iphone clientèle?

  • patrick

    it is kinda funny that apple is putting multitasking off on the app developers, that way, when your phone freezes up apple can say “Not our problem, must be a bad app”. Passing the buck like they always do. Keep on keeping on Apple. You just make Android look better and better.

  • patrick

    and btw, I love the Talk & Surf argument, “You wish you could hop on the internet and get directions to a friend you are talking to at the same time”,I am not a concierge service, if you need directions buck up and be a man and find out yourself. And as far as doing this while on a business call!!! are you kidding me? Clients and bosses would be totally put off by 30+ seconds waiting for me to type on screen and get the info, they would just say “email it to me”.

  • Perspective

    Regardless of how well anyone thinks Android has done, there’s a reason Verizon keeps repeating that they want the iPhone. . .they’d rather sell iPhones than give away ‘Droids. Until Verizon can sell phones without BOGO campaigns, Android is still a niche market product for guys that live in their mom’s basements, drive Corollas and eat coco puffs for dinner. The fact that their commercials scare children doesn’t help either.

    • Mitch

      Maybe if you stopped smelling Steve Jobs’ butt crack you would realize that carriers could care less about selling phones.

      Phones are hardly worth anything to a carrier. It’s CUSTOMERS and their contracts that bring carriers money. Do the math. $200 phone which nets them an even smaller profit after taking into the cost. OR $80/month plans for 1 to 2 years.

      BOGO hurts Verizon about as much as that metal border antenna will help your iPhone make calls.

    • Peter

      I’m very partial to my corolla and my droid, thank you very much. Great gas mileage!

  • Brian

    Oh that’s right…iphone users couldn’t actually listen to music and do anything else at the same time. Not that multitasking will help with this congenital defect…

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