Recently, we've been getting
a number of e-mails from readers saying that we need to do a story
about how the multitasking on the HTC One X is broken. Amazingly, just
as we were working on that very article, HTC made a statement on the
subject. Unfortunately, it's not a statement that users will really want
to hear.
The general issue that we've been hearing
about is that tasks that get sent to the background on the HTC One X are
not being held in memory, but rather are being shut down, and so when
you go back to an app it will start from scratch, or in the case of the
browser, it will reload the page you had open no matter what. This
effectively made multitasking non-existent aside from the HTC-built
apps, which are actually held in memory.
HTC
commented on the issue today, and effectively said that it made the
memory management and task killing on the One X extremely aggressive on
purpose. Of course, HTC started out by placating users, but that
probably won't go too far. The company told The Verge:
