Usability.

most seems to be quite happy with mcalendar or gpe calendar+emring, both enabling calendar sync vs google.

me i would love to see a more generic syncml calendar support, and i think its planned for the ongoing rework of mcalendar.

but it seems to not be a big thing, either because people are using their phones for that, or that most devs here are not big users of said functionality...

Yea, and I bought a 36 month licence to unlock the navigation and updates. But what you missed was the word "supported".

Traffic updates, speed camera updates have stopped working here in the UK since the year started, and support will not confirm if or when it'll be fixed, with the inference being that they won't. There have been no map updates for a year now. Not a lot wrong with the app itself, apart from it's starting to date slightly.

A port of the calendar app used on symbian phones, along with the outlook sync code, would be a helpful alternative

Check this thread out...http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=18868

Hopefully this will make it as a woking solution on the N8x0s one day

some good ideas here. yes, I wanted to look for completely new things rather than incremental improvements to what we already have. I didn't want to throw my own ideas in immediately, but now everyone else has had a chance I'll have a go.

As hinted, some hardware and driver hacks I'd like to see investigated:
* accelerometer (possibly in progress) and orientation - could be used in carman, gps dead reckoning, screen rotation, games
* usb power output increase - enough to support a few more devices esp. n800
* fast a/d conversion for xoscope
* ram add-on (is this even possible by stacking chips?)
* audio driver enhanced to offer balance and tone (frequency reponse) control, possibly even HRTF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-re...nsfer_function) for 3D audio
*

S/W:
* better wifi driver for kismet and packet injection for us security testing people
* better bluetooth obex and transfer, better integration with all applications for transferring data
* good mouse/trackball support
* a port of google earth and google maps
* webcam support in jabber and skype, not just in voip
* speech recognition, recording triggering
* built-in security like encrypted /home, wifi or bluetooth proximity locking (tablet only automatically unlocks at home or trusted hotspots)
* timed recording off radio or microphone
* amazon mp3

Hopefully people will now tell me I'm missed the boat and all these are available!

#1 TO DO: GET MAEMO ABIWORD WORKING!

And as for the bulk-porting of Debian / Ubuntu apps:

If you use Easy Debian to install interesting-sounding apps for a while, you will rapidly come to the realization that most of the apps out there are not worth "bulk porting" to the tablets. And once you've filtered out those, you're left with a handful of really useful apps that often have been ported already.

Why are so many apps not useful? An astonishing number of basic apps depend on something ridiculous. For example, I saw an interesting ebook library app, and I was thinking of installing it in Easy Debian, until I realized that they decided to make a stupid flashy OpenGL interface for it that flips the book covers around on a shiny surface like the iPhone. HUH?

A bunch of other apps don't adequately support the software architecture of the tablets. In order for reasonable usability, you need things like GTK+ toolkit, ESD-ALSA sound, an interface that can fit into an 800x480 display, and no hardware video acceleration. Then there are the nice-to-have things, like mappable keys and avoidance of giant dialog boxes...

Anyway, I am all for porting more apps to Maemo, but try them out in Easy Debian (or, even better, Easy Mer) and if they perform reasonably, post a request on the forums and someone will probably take you up on the offer.

Skype with video is highly unlikely on existing tablets without across the board changes to Skype's transport protocols and/or video format. See Eero Tamminen's message on maemo-users.

That's probably because Wayfinder became part of Vodafone.

What would I like to see? The OVI store...


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