Mobile terminal and control method thereof

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen; and

a controller configured to control an operating system of the mobile terminal to:

display information of a first application on the touch screen in response to a selection of the first application to execute the first application;

display, on the display unit, the list of applications to be executed when a user request is received for displaying the list of application, wherein the list of applications is not displayed before the user request is received; and

receive, from the list of applications, a selection of a second application to execute the second application and respectively display the information of the first application in a first window and information of the second application in a second window on the display unit,

wherein both of the first window and the second window are displayed on the touch screen,

wherein the list of applications is disappeared from the touch screen when the second application is executed on the second window, and

wherein the first application executed in the first window is different from the second application executed in the second window.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the list of applications comprises a plurality of applications available for multitasking.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the list of applications are hidden from view when the second application is executed on the second window.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the first window is a main window and the second window is a sub-window.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the list of applications comprises at least one of a voice call application, a video call application, a text message application, a text chatting application, a game application, a mobile internet application, a DMB application, a navigation application, an E-book reader application, a camera application, a phone book application, or a document creator application.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to display a horizontal bar at an edge of the first window, and to resize the first window when the horizontal bar is dragged through the touch screen.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to display on the touch screen an indicator indicating an occurrence of an event,

wherein the event is a video call signal, a call signal reception, a text message reception, or an alarm event, and

wherein the controller is further configured to:

display a text message associated with the text message reception in response to an input thereof; and

display an edit window for replying to the text message in response to an input thereof.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7 , wherein the indicator is in a form of an icon or a character box.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the first application is a web-browser and the second application is a text message application.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9 , wherein information processed by the web-browser is applied to the text message application in response to an input thereof.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein a position of the first window is exchanged with a position of the second window in response to an input thereof.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the size of the first window is enlarged to be equal to the size of the touch screen if the second window is closed in response to a touch input to a first designated key on the touch screen, and

wherein the size of the second window is enlarged to be equal to the size of the touch screen if the first window is closed in response to a touch input to a second designated key on the touch screen.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the touch screen is divided to simultaneously display the first window and the second window on a same layer.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the size of the first window is reduced to be equal to the size of the second window in response to the selection of the second application.

15. A method for controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

controlling an operating system of the mobile terminal to:

display information of a first application on a touch screen of the mobile terminal in response to a selection of the first application to execute the first application;

display, on the touch screen, the list of applications to be executed when a user request is received for displaying the list of application, wherein the list of applications is not displayed before the user request is received; and

receive, from the list of applications, a selection of a second application to execute the second application and respectively display the information of the first application in the first window and information of the second application in a second window on the display unit,

wherein both of the first window and the second window are displayed on the touch screen,

wherein the list of applications is diapered on the touch screen when the second application is executed on the second window, and

wherein the first application executed in the first window is different from the second application executed in the second window.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the list of applications comprises a plurality of applications available for multitasking.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the executing the second application comprises disappearing the list of applications from view.

18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

displaying a horizontal bar at an edge of the first window; and

resizing the first window when the horizontal bar is dragged through the touch screen.