preideas

Categories for Contacts 

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.

Better control of Mp3s playback  

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.

Quick Pause/Unpause of MP3 

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

Interface inprovement for moving applications around in the Launcher  

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

Better "Music" Library Interface for Long titles 

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"