Brainstorm

Nokia N900 Needs a commercial ebook reader

Posted on 2010-01-12 02:51 UTC by Hugh Caley. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Media.

There are currently no commercial ebook readers (an ebook reader that can read DRM content) available for the N900.  And we cannot rely on the old standby that any Linux program is potentially an N900 program since there is no commercial ebook reader for Linux either ;)

 

"Intelligent" Date Picker

Posted on 2010-01-14 02:26 UTC by Brad Grigor. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Office, User Experience.

The N900 uses a scrolly "Rolodex" or "odometer" style date picker for Tasks and Events. This paradigm, perhaps inspired by the iPhone and other "touch" devices, may be simple (i.e. it has no intelligence and was probably easy to code) but it is also inefficient (i.e. often requires excessive effort to reach the required outcome) and ineffective (i.e. doesn't address typical date picking requirements).

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Allow editing and sorting of Track ratings in the Media Player

Posted on 2010-01-19 05:04 UTC by jeremy gillespie. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Media.

The N900's media player allows for very basic selection of music by album, genre or all tracks. There are a lot of other id3 tags which would be nice to be able to select music by in the player.

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Tag-based Menu for N900 applications

Posted on 2010-02-11 13:47 UTC by Luis Soeiro. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop.

The default N900 application menu doesn't have categories for applications. After installing some applications it becomes a little cluttered. Hence, there are currently MyMenu and Catorize to help sorting things out, with sub-menus.

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maemo.org should take over maintenance of the build chain

Posted on 2009-06-16 15:13 UTC by Jeremiah Foster. Status: Invalid, Categories: System, maemo.org.

It is hard to run a half-closed and half-open project. Nokia should free as much of thier software as possible to the community thereby lightening their own maintenance load and cost. maemo.org should be the place where developers get the software they need to create applications for the device and Nokia should pull and push software to the maemo.org repositories.