On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using a n800 with the factory-installed OS. > > Does the Contacts application really provide no way to enter a street > address, that is, a regular postal mailing address, the plain old > physical-letter-in-a-physical-envelope-with-a-stamp-on-it kind of address? > People still do need to write letters on paper sometimes. > > When I select contact->New Contact I get to provide First Name, Last Name, > Nickname, E-mail, and Jabber. For a while I was astounded that there > was no provision for a phone number. But then I discovered I could also > choose Add Field and get to provide E-mail (again?) Phone, > Web Address, and Jabber (again?). > > But no plain old old-fashioned address. I don't even need to > formally split into street names and numbers, etc. > Just a plain old multi-line text field would do (Unicode or UTF-8 > preferred, of course). > > -- hendrik > You're correct: the Contacts app that comes with the tablet is completely useless, as it only has fields for name, email, Jabber, SIP, Nickname, Web page URL and phone number. Some of those are only available if you click the "Add field" button. The gpe Contacts app is much better and has a *lot* more fields (including physical addresses), but it's still limited and doesn't give you the option to add any custom fields, so you're out of luck if you need anything that isn't already included. It also only allows numerals in phone number fields, so if you have a number thats like this: "1-546-456-5792 ext.3928" you're once again out of luck because it won't accept the "ext.". You can get around that by using a dash instead of the alpha characters, but then it isn't technically correct. It's still more than adequate for many people. If you have the "Extras" repository enabled, it should show up in your Application Manager. Click "Browse installable applications", then "All", then scroll down to "gpe-contacts". You can also try this link: http://www.cobb.uk.net/NokiaIT/gpe-contacts.install Which comes from the homepage of the developer: http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/index.html#gpe Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
