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Ideas for new applications, or improvements to existing applications, for the Palm® Pré™
There's a birthday field in contacts.... why doesn't it show as an All Day Event in Calendar? Preferably with some preference for how soon to give you a reminder.
When I search for Contacts, I want to search by nickname, address, other info including notes, etc. The Contacts Search is limited to the Name field it seems. How can I search for Business and Nicknames in my contacts unless you expand the Search Feature to allow me to do that. Also, it is difficult to scroll through the hundreds of contacts i have to get to what I want, so any speed up of the search filter will be helpful.
Voice Recorder Only for Quick Memos Needed. I like the Video Recorder, but that takes up too much space on the PRE. We need a Seperate VOICE Recorder Application that will allow us to record Memos, Lectures (Compress to MP3) and to have Lists of Voice Recordings with Titles and sorted by Date, etc.
I want to Email my Voice Recordings and be able to upload them to Google Voice for Transcription by Google Voice Transcription Features. I should be able to SMS voice.
I am a Sprint Customer, so I want VOICE Dailing also. Why can't I speak the Name of my Contacts and have it Pop Up to Dial. "Dial Mom"? Where is that? It doesn't seem to be a feature yet.
Please do more with VOICE Recording and Voice Recognition. Thanks.
Email messages are not actually purged from the iMap inbox when they are deleted. This should make it possible to offer an undelete function.
A native remember the milk app that will save locally and sync later if it ever goes offline. A lot like their iPhone app only with better auto synching when online because the Pre is awesome at that.
I would really like to see the Urbanspoon application, for the Palm Pre. This would use the GPS to show restaurants around your current location.
the palm pre should be the first mobile device with an awesome native google wave client. Like a mail client it can inform you about ongoing/new conversation non intrusive and in a nice way.
I know, its a small thing, but it'd be really useful to know how many character's I've typed into a text message.
There's a birthday field in contacts.... why doesn't it show as an All Day Event in Calendar? Preferably with some preference for how soon to give you a reminder.
All of the contacts on the Pre are currently jumbled together. It would be preferable to add category tags such as "Personal" or "Business" or "Archival" and give the user the option to default to a category to display.
When you go back to an MP3, it starts over from the beginning each time. This is problematic when listening to long podcasts. This is further complicated by the fact that you only have the ability to skip forward and back by tiny increments. Ideally the Pre would store the last point that you were listening to an MP3. Another way to address this issue is to integrate a "scroll bar" to allow you to jump to a specific time in the MP3.
The App Catalog needs an option to show installed apps that have updates available (like Apple's App Store has now).
In old Palm OS calendar apps, all I had to do was start typing and it would plop in a new event. Would love to see that or similar functionality (on-screen "+" button would be fine, as in Mail, etc) in webOS. Any common task that requires me to go to app menu needs to be rethought.
When listening to MP3s the Pre goes into power saving mode, as it should. The unfortunate part of this is that the Pre does not have an elegant way of pausing and restarting MP3s while in this state. Currently you need to take out the Pre, press the power button, unlock the Pre, then find and press the on screen pause.

I would find it ideal if the "center" button paused and restarted MP3s while the screen is off. I understand that this button could be accidentally pressed by some users, so I assume this would be an activatable feature. I also realize that the Pre hardware and OS may not monitor this button while the screen is off but there are other possibilities. For instance, rapidly turning the Pre on and off could act as a pause button
IPhone OS does this and it feels very natural. Webos web forms also feel a little sloppily rendered. Would be nice if Enter key tabbed through fields the way sev apps do in the OS
There's no reason this shouldn't work, in my mind. At a minimum, there should be an instant "type and go" search for a song/artist/album, which at the moment doesn't exist even in the Music app itself.
To move an application in the Launcher you simply touch the application for a moment and then drag it to where you want it (simple enough) and if you want to move it to a different one of the three pages, you move it off the edge of the screen (again simple enough).

The issue is that if you put a case on the phone, there is an raised edge at the edge of the screen and it is very difficult (1 time in 10) to successfully get the application to the "edge" of the screen before the raised edge of the case pulls your finger up enough to "drop" the application.

This "dropping" does not occur until well after the application is viewed as "close" to the edge and this problem could be "easily" solved if Palm adjusted the "crossover point" when moving applications
I listen to a lot of podcasts and each podcast from the same source tends to have a tag on the front of the title identifying it. So all of the podcasts I get from ifanboy.com start with "Ifanboy.com pick of the week podcast" followed by the name of the pick of the week. When I see this on the menu selection, EVERY ifanboy pod cast shows up as : "iFanboy.com Pick of the Week..."

There is no way to distinguish these from each-other other than to play the mp3. Possible solutions would be to have "scrolling" names for long titles, have an application that intelligently eliminates reused content from the display (my favorite option), or have the full name pop up ANYWHERE when a title is selected or "tapped"
We need SSH on the Pre, with keys. SSH enables a variety terminal applications including IRC, and remote administration. Additionally, that grants the Pre the ability to administer my desktop at home.
The Palm Pre should allow tethering. This should be allowed over Bluetooth, WiFi, and USB. In WiFi mode the Pre should make its own ad-hoc network, and run a dhcp server with NAT.
I know that you can connect profiles in the palm contact manager, but it's "hard." Many of my dups and multiples are due to nicknames and such that make it difficult for synergy to merge them. An improved merge function would be useful.