Brainstorm: Brainstorms, category Internet & Networking

Implement portrait mode for Fremantle Messaging

luarvique@gmail.com (Marat Fayzullin) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:26:12 +0000

Implementing portrait mode in Fremantle Messaging (i.e. email, IM, SMS, etc) will give the following advantages:

1. A user will be able to pull the device out of his pocket with one hand, and look at his incoming messages. Writing messages in portrait mode will be impossible without a vertical virtual keyboard, but it is less important as people check on messages way more frequently than write them.

2. Portrait oriented lists can contain much more entries than landscape lists, so a user can see more messages at once when quickly checking his email/IM status.

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Email (Modest): Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:54:06 +0000

(Originally posted at https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2557)

Modest stores sent email and draft emails locally. Evolution, for instance, allows you to choose folders on your IMAP account, in the preferences.

I use IMAP specifically so I can use any client on any machine and see all of my mails. I don't want any client storing things locally, except as a cache. Thus, I'd like to keep my Sent and Drafts folders on my IMAP server.

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Google Calendar & Contacts synchronization

henri.bergius@iki.fi (Henri Bergius) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000

Google Calendar and Google Contacts are a popular way to manage PIM data "in the cloud". They are available nicely through the Google Apps web interfaces, and are supported for synchronization by many applications ranging from Apple's OS X desktop to iPhone and GNOME Evolution. However, on Maemo there is no way to synchronize them.

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Make the browser feel more a part of the system

henri.bergius@iki.fi (Henri Bergius) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:55 +0000

Web applications are becoming more and more sophisticated with new techniques and users flocking to AJAX-based rich internet applications. Now the Maemo Browser still feels very much stuck in the "document-based web" idea although there would be potential to much more.

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Add support for Google calendar

juanjomarin96@gmail.com (Juanjo Marin) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:03:43 +0000

Google calendar is a very popular calendar service and I think it 
should be supported on the Calendar application for better and 
complete user experience. 

It seems that you can sync google calendar using Mail for 
Exchange, but this support is limited. The limited support of 
Google calendars in MfE will only allow synchronizing the first 
calendar in your google calendars.  Consider how limiting this is 
in this example:

Let's say you have two calendars, a personal calendar and a 
business calendar. With existing support, you can only 
synchronize personal calendar and not the business calendar.

It makes the transparent syncing of Android very attractive in
 comparison.

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SkypeOut costs representation

turist@gmail.com (Yevgen Antymyrov) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:58:50 +0000

Since now we have in N900 this beautiful contact list with the ability
to choose between mobile operator vs Skype/SIP VoIP for calls,
wouldn't it be great to know how much the last call was in $$
equivalent along with the current call duration time? AFAIK It is available
in desktop Skype.

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Store SMS messages in an IMAP folder

ruskie-maemo@codemages.net (Andraž Levstik) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:26:09 +0000

Ability to store SMSes on an IMAP folder would be nice. I consider SMS a different priority than IM. IM I tend to just wipe when I don't need it. SMSes I'd like to keep for a longer period.

As my imap server gets backed up daily this makes it the nicest way of doing it.

Edit: added forum link

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=428885

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Plugin For Web SMS

cocayden+maemo@gmail.com (Cayden M) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:10:10 +0000

Many voip plans come with sms at a much cheaper rate than is offered by mobile network providers. The downside to using web sms is that sms's sent through the web interface and not stored with other sent messages and arent included as part of conversations.

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(re)Add Camera support to Flash plug-in.

maemo.org@falkensweb.com (tom chiverton) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:55:11 +0000

As per https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1889

Camera support in Flash was intentionally disabled. it was actually technically working at one point (accidentally). among other things, [Nokia are] afraid of pages managing to get users to accidentally enable the camera and the privacy concerns that entails."

Forum thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40097

Although I can understand 'afraid of pages managing to get users to
accidentally enable the camera', it's difficult to do this accidentally (each
domain generates an in-Flash prompt on each access) and it's not an issue in
other operating systems (i.e. desktop Linux, Mac, Windows) even where those do
not have hardware 'camera in use' lights.

If the N900 is advertised as 'full Flash 9', and it has a camera (or two), it
just seems odd that neither work in the Player.

I understand it may require work from Adobe as well as Nokia, but if it's more
a case of turning it back on than actually writing it, why can't this be done ?

If it doesn't support the devices camera, I think refering to it as 'full
Flash' of either v9 or v10.1 is a bit disingenuous. 

You wouldn't expect with (say) a laptop computer that came with a built in
camera to be unable to use that in Flash...

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Providing support for Generic Access Network (GAN)/Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)

pgrodt@gmail.com (Paul Grodt) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:08:04 +0000

The N900 does not currently support Generic Network Access (GAN), which is often also referred to by its implementation, "Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)". This is a feature that, if implemented by a mobile provider, allows acess to a 3G/GSM network through a generic Internet (IP) connection. In the case of the N900, this would be an 802.11 Wi-fi connection. This allows voice calls and SMS in places that have poor or zero cellular signal reception (e.g. basements, shielded buildings). This also effectively bypasses the need to purchase a separate Femtocell.

GAN is currently supported by multiple operators, including T-Mobile and Orange. It is supported on multiple smartphones, including Nokia's 6301, 6086, 7510 (According to Wikipedia)

The protocol is defined in 3GPP TS 43.318 and 3GPP TS 44.318. I see no requirements that would prevent a software implementation of this feature in the N900.

Link to brainstorm discussion thread

(This has been discussed in a more general sense on this thread.)

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