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Yes, the 3DS can multitask - Web browsing
Posted Jan 29, 2011 at 1:02PM EST by Glenn M.

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You can also browse the eShop when the service launches this May. There will be a lot of content to be downloaded from there, so it'd be handy to be able to play or watch something while you're tinkering with something else.

 

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Once you get into the eShop, you also want to download that free web browser. With the multitasking capability of the 3DS, you can check the web for info that might help you in your game. A certain treasure, for example, or a walkthrough if you're the completionist type.

 

To navigate yourself through the open apps, you can choose to display a screenshot of the game you're playing on the top screen, or shrink both apps down to fit a screen each.

 

 

 

[via Siliconera]


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+1 # RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — Glenn M. 2011-01-29 14:47
the game notes and the web browsing will certainly find good uses. good move on nintendo's part to have multitasking

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+2 # RE: RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — ISOHaven 2011-01-31 15:18
It's probably the same "fake" multitasking that iOS has. It simply dumps a save state of one app then goes and runs another.

Don't get me wrong, totally useful! Glad they implemented it. It should also save on battery life when the unit is "sleeping".

On a side note, I love the comments about how the 3DS can multitask because it has 2 CPUs. As we all know, computers with only 1 CPU can't multitask...oh...wait...DOH!

Multitasking is not CPU dependent. It's all about memory management. Seeing as how we've been multitasking clear back to the 33Mhz days and prior....the CPU has nothing to do with it. Many current day devices (like cell phones) can multitask with single low powered CPUs.

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-2 # Page 2 of 2 — SeRosiS 2011-01-29 14:48
Quote:
You can also browse the eShop when the service launches this May. There will be a lot of content to be downloaded from there, so it'd be handy to be able to play or watch something while you're tinkering with something else.

Once you get into the eShop, you also want to download that free web browser. With the multitasking capability of the 3DS, you can check the web for info that might help you in your game. A certain treasure, for example, or a walkthrough if you're the completionist type.

To navigate yourself through the open apps, you can choose to display a screenshot of the game you're playing on the top screen, or shrink both apps down to fit a screen each.


http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/28/take-notes-while-playing-nintendo-3ds-games/

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+2 # RE: Page 2 of 2 — ISOHaven 2011-01-31 15:48
Thanks for the link! Hopefully in the notes area you can categorize them. Even better would be it automatically takes you to the notes section you made for each individual game.

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# RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — 8675309 2011-01-29 15:41
they were supposed to have this with Wii but i guess they dropped it. the Wii's email system was suppoesed to work while games/applications were running but they removed that in a patch a few months later for some reason

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-7 # RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — Deez Nutz 2011-01-29 15:46
The 3DS has 2 processors, so it SHOULD be able to multitask.

My old amiga 500 from 1987 could multitask as well.

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# RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — Dan from Jersey 2011-01-29 17:06
If only it had 3g like sony's new handheld. then again its 250 bucks and sony's will probably be 600, being optimistic.

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+1 # RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — PS360 Owner1 2011-01-29 19:12
Even a Nokia N73 can multi-task so 3DS should too by now.

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+1 # RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — keith_ 2011-01-29 22:23
uh oh,nintendo better look out, or geohotz (or whatever his name is) may hack it so that it will cook a steak while surfing the internet for cuckold porn while doing his taxes.

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# RE: RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — HangmanSwingset 2011-01-30 06:33
3DS = 3D porn for virgins everywhere.

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# RE: RE: RE: Yes, the 3DS can multitask — Rastermany 2011-01-30 22:27
I think you just opened a new can of worms.

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# lol — lolzzz 2011-02-02 19:28
lol...epic

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