On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:22:05 -0600, Jon A. Solworth wrote: > I've been a bit frustrated with the usefulness of N800. Its a > great toy, > very cool, and I plan to use it as a development platform. But many things > appear not to work (perhaps I just can't find the documentation for them) > and it seems to take inordinately long to determine what's happening. > I agree, N800 is just a toy so far, there are not much useful apps as I thought there would be. I consider my experience with Palm Zire was comparatively much better than N800. Naturally Nokia shipped this device early, it is good in lot of ways, most of the can deliver community engineers have got their devices recently lot of upcoming development is expected. But it seems Nokia has to help fast it up a bit. I consider there were more and much better OSS apps for Palm, could Nokia take some inspiration from them ? even design and thinking Palm engineers. N800 can positively deliver more than Palm devices. Various types of functions and apps need to be helped get there (views are mine, some 2cents some maybe - what I just got wrong, I address Nokia & Meamo in a mix): * More & more centrally accessible packages, then pushing users away in need of adding third party/developer repositories. * Recently flagged bluetooth mouse support * Bluetooth headset support * Better News/Email apps. (tiny mail, mutt, Pan2 etc) * OpenHand apps are decent to improve further - import options are missing as of now * Podcast/Videocast feed support built in Media Player will make some sense * Photo/Video applications else camera is pretty useless * Out of the box encryption protection for data on device when locked especially * Un-locking & password based on key combinations of D-Pad * Re-setting N800 is like taking up an engineering project even if its just about plugging in the USB cable, could this be simpler ? like in most of the mobile devices ? now if that is not an option in hardware, could that be with some setup command ? * If RSS feeds needs to be added to the RSS feed reader, each and every single entry of the imported OPML file has to be confirmed one by one, this hurts when there are hundreds or thousands of feed entries to be imported * Password management applications are very essential and should be able to import from most popular desktop Password manager apps * FBReader needs more engineering help or better Plucker reader should be ported to Maemo, being an Ebook reader N800 gets more value as a product * Phone/SMS applications & sync apps are very useful to have on N800 * Porting at-least two community web browsers makes sense (dillo & elinks) * Java * Option of Icons instead of menus on desktop like on Palm for example * Nokia must also support OpenSync for both Windows & Linux and adopt it as a part of their OSS project, I hope they know their benefits with that. * Nokia should also explore future of application packaging for such devices > I'm hoping that we can expand, correct, and maintain this list so that > core functionality works. > Right now, I don't view the n800 as a device which is suitable for > geeks; it is cool for what it can > be, not for what it is. Perhaps Nokia would be willing to provide some > resources to get this stuff > working (bounties?). > > Jon Bounties rarely works, almost everyone can figure out why Nokia is doing this project, but then they share common goals and desires of thousands of Open Source enthusiastic and developers, that adds to the common benefits of all of us. But sure we are all eager, so I request Nokia lets really get things moving more faster before some of us start loosing interest. I might not be a good judge perhaps Nokia is doing things fast and best they can as of now, and I wish every single feedback with Maemo project increases their moral and enthusiast about this project.
