Brainstorm: In development, category Internet & Networking

SyncML support in Maemo5

jukey@ju-key.de (Uwe Kaminski) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:58:36 +0000

Maemo5 does not support SyncML out of the box. SyncML is a standard used to synchronize clients with a SyncML server. There are open source server software (like Funambol provides) and a lot of clients for nearly every plattform as you can see here. The idea is to have also a solution to synchronize Contacts, calendar entries, tasks and notes (and maybe more stuff) from the N900 (Maemo5) to a SyncML server.

Services (free and paid) offering SyncML can be found here.

Thread in talk.maemo.org to discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37034

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Portrait mode support to the browser

spam1@meins.net (Corwin Amber) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:02:31 +0000

It would be great if the browser could also be used in portrait mode. Some pages just fit better that way. Also for one handed reading it would be better to hold the device in portrait mode.

Furthermore all of the competition supports it, users might be wondering why this is not the case here.

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Make Cellular Data Stats Easier For Users To Find

jay@zerojay.com (Jason Carter) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:53:54 +0000

In Maemo 5, cellular data statistics (transmitted and received) are hidden away deep. Users must go through the following to find their usage information:

1) Open Settings from the Task Manager button.

2) Click on Phone.

3) Scroll down past the numerous phone settings.

4) Click on Data Counters button.

Seeing as the N900 is the first of the internet tablets to have a built-in cellular radio, users are going to be compelled to use a lot more data than they might have usually. In a lot of areas of the world, unlimited data plans just do not exist, opening users up to lots of potential overusage charges on top of their data plans.

The solution must be in a place that is easily accessible by the user and easily visible in places where the user tends to spend a lot of time.

Optionally, alarms could be set to allow the tablet to warn the user whenever they are within a certain percentage of the maximum data use allowed by their provider, set by the user.

Potential programmers/widget makers, you can retrieve the data for the phone's data connection through /proc/net/dev. The connection name whose data we are interested in is named phonet0 within /proc/net/dev and is accessible without root.

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