Brainstorm

rSAP (or SAP) is used for mainly Nokia carkits. Many European manufacturers as Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda, Mercedes have it on their cars. The carkit connects to the phone, copies the SIM data, then puts the phones own transmitter into offline mode and uses the data from the sim to bring online it's own transmitter. For increased reception, lower battery usage on the phone and great voice quality. Great service.

There have been number of entries on bugzilla (5204, 7182) and talks (34027, 31962, 35756) about this. This just has to be part of Nokia N900 bluetooth profiles.

It's really sad that N900 (Maemo) doesn't support this bluetooth profile out-of-the-box.

Thread to discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34027

Hi Guys,

I really hope I get this right because it's my first "brainstorm" here. I used the Search-Function but couldn't find a brainstorm already proposing my idea:

What I really would appreciate for my N900 Phone is a Sleep Timer "shutting down" the phone after a certain time.

I have to admit I have no clue how difficult this would be it's just so annoying using the phone and those brilliant onboard speakers at night with the problem that i have a N900 with empty battery the next morning.

Related Post on Brainstorm Forum:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41818

Regards
Christian

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40255

I often use headphones when watching movies because I don't want to wake up my little son, and I bought those big wireless headphones.
The idea is to use the phone as bluetooth (or wifi?) receiver for audio played on a desktop pc. It would be great to, for example:

1) control the mediaplayer on the pc
2) pause in case of incoming calls
3) pause when you move too much far
and so on.

following the steps described in: http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices i get:

mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth mymovie.avi
...
...
...
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1607audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Input/output error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=bluetooth'
...
...
...
First of all, is this possible?

I have used a few smartphones/PDAs in the past (Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Psion, etc.) and I find an integrated spellchecker vital on any device with a keyboard. I was expecting the N900 to have one.

Hi,

a nice alternative to calendar synchronisation is the use of caldav (wikipedia). It's an internet standard (RFC 4791) which describes a calendar extension for webdav.

It's supported by some widely used desktop calendars (Thunderbird/Lightning, iCal, Evolution), it's supported by Google Calendar and there are some caldav server already available (daviCal and calendarserver for example).

It's usable everywhere, the events are directly saved on the remote server and can be shared easily with other people. In case of offline mode, a cache can be used so the calendar is sync'ed with the remote server when online mode is activated (like it's done for the desktop counterparts).

Webdav and vcal/ical libraries can be used to build caldav support into the already existing calendar.