True iPad multitasking may not come until iPhone OS 4 arrives in the Autumn, but two new apps have quietly hit iTunes offering the next best thing: a browser, with separate, in screen windows for web apps. Want to run Twitter, Facebook and chat clients while surfing the web? Now you can.
By sheer coincidence, two new iPad apps have hit the App Store on the exact same day, offering a near identical premise: letting you run useful web apps in pop up panes, sidebars or windows.
The first app, Multitasking for iPad, only lets you run Twitter and Facebook streams in the background, but you can have both running in windows at the bottom, or set to make noise alerts when updates come through on your iPad.
The second iPad app, Multitasking Browser, won’t allow for three windows in view at once, but will let you run many more web apps (More than 20, including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Google Talk), and even open them as pop up panes. In landscape mode, this iPad multitasking app can show a side app in a separate sidebar, which disappears when tilted into portrait mode.
iPad gets multitasking in iPhone OS 4
Many iPhone apps have offered in-app browsing to achieve similar effect while iPhone OS still prevents multitasking with third party apps, but the ability should prove much more useful on the iPad with its larger screen, which can make use of windows in windows.
Both iPad multitasking apps are available on the UK iPad App Store now at an identical £1.79, so if you’ve already imported Apple’s tablet, you can try them out right now. If not, alas, you’ll have to wait until late May due to Apple’s latest iPad delay.
Out Now | £from 1.79 | Apple (Via Mobile Entertainment)
