Best Taskman - The Most Essential Commercial Application On My N82

Keep in mind while reading, this was an article I wrote a few months back over at Symbian Addict. Everything still applies here. Best Taskman is one of the most important applications I have installed on my phone, and since it's a Task Manager, I use it most often. I used almost everytime I pick up my phone. I know, a lot of people swear by the other task manager Handy Taskman, but I think Best Taskman blows it out of the water. Not to mention its half the price. Main reason I like it over Handy Taskman is the Quick Start button and the Hotkey Switcher.

The Hotkey Switcher
There are many reasons why I love this application, and the main one being you can assign a hotkey to act as your Switcher, like "Alt-Tab" on your Windows PC. Thats right, in any application or screen, use just press a hotkey that you assign, and a small window pops up with Icons of all your applications that you are currently running in the background, and it allows you to scroll through and switch to that application immediately.

Using the Switcher Hotkey, I can see all of applications I am currently running while I'm using Google Maps. On my N73, I use the Music (aka Multimedia) button as my hotkey.


The Quick Start Feature
Another awesome feature is the Quick Start Menu. You can go into the main Best Taskman Menu, and add whatever applications you want to the Quick Start menu. These are applications that I want to be able to access quickly at any time on any page.

While checking out out the latest Southern California traffic with Google Maps, I can quickly push the Quick Start Hotkey to launch any of the programs I want, and it will open the program over the original, while keeping the original in the background. I use the Gallery Button on the side of the phone for this hotkey, and if you hold down the button, whatever application you have listed first, will open. So essentially, this key is also my Music hotkey.


Other features include Close All, Memory Status (for the Ram, Phone, & Card), view hidden tasks and applications, auto start, and much more. Holding down the default menu/switcher key will bring up the following screenshots, pretty much similar to Handy Taskman.

A rundown of the currently open applications. If you go to options or press the Clear button on your phone, you can close down each application. You also have the option to Close All, and view detailed application info.


This is where you setup your Quick Start applications.


And where you view the memory status of your phone.


For only $9.95 at SmartphoneWare, I think it's a great deal and a must-have application. You can try it out and if you don't like it, then don't buy it.

Click here to check it out.

If you don't like Best Taskman, or if it's not working right for you, you can check out Handy Taskman by clicking here. (keep in mind it's $10 dollars more).

Have any of you used this application in the past? Feel free to ask any questions or problems you might have with Best Taskman for the N82.