Top Ideas : preideas

Birthdays Should Show Up Automatically in Calendar

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:25:28 PDT

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.

Comments (2)Applications, calendar, birthday, reminder

Bluetooth Pairing

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:12:24 PDT

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WebOS should be able to pair with devices over bluetooth that are not headsets. For example, it should be able to pair with laptop computers without the laptop initiating the pairing connection.

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Application Updates

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:22:24 PDT

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The App Catalog needs an option to show installed apps that have updates available (like Apple's App Store has now).

Comments (0)Applications, app catalog

The Mojo SDK should be publicly available

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:16:55 PDT

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The Mojo SDK should be publicly available and easily accessible to anyone.

Comments (0)Mojo™ SDK, mojo sdk

Categories for Contacts

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:26:28 PDT

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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.

Comments (0)Applications, contacts

SSH

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:41:20 PDT

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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.

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Tethering

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:11:12 PDT

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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.

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Web browser should zoom in when clicking into a form

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:42:24 PDT

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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

Comments (0)Applications, web, zoom, forms, native feel

Power API

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:47:10 PDT

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Developers apps can tell when
- the device is on a touchstone
- the device is charging
- the device is not charging
- the device has less than 50% battery

This would allow apps to slow down resource consumption when the battery dips below 50%, allow the apps to use as much as it wants when charging, and off special stuff if it is on a touchstone.

Comments (1)Mojo™ Framework, development, mojo, power, api

Text Message Character Count

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:23:09 PDT

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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.

Comments (2)Applications, text message, chat, ui

Centralized Alert Controls

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:19:34 PDT

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All alert types should be controllable from one location. Right now, if I want to turn off audible e-mail alerts, but leave messaging alerts and the ringer audible, I have to go into the e-mail app menu, select the account, and turn off alerts from there. If I want to turn off e-mail alerts and messaging alerts while leaving the ringer on, then I have to go to the messaging app menu in addition to the e-mail app menu. These should all be individually controllable from the "Sounds & Ringtones" app.

Comments (1)webOS™, webos, applications, device

Launcher Organization

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:19:42 PDT

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We you start adding lots of apps it because more difficult to get to them.

I want to be able to make more pages or can I have a list mode like on Palm OS?

Comments (2)webOS™, launcher, usability, navigation

Touchstone Display Options

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:15:21 PDT

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I want to customize what my Pre displays while it sitting on my Touchstone all day at work.

Basic: Which notifications, today's date, current weather

Advanced: slideshow out of my photo albums, etc

Comments (2)Device, touchstone, palm pre, configuration, options

Better control of Mp3s playback

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:38:53 PDT

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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.

Comments (0)Applications, music player, ppdcast, user interface

Synergy needs a more obvious "merge" capability.

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:21:42 PDT

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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.

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Custom alerts

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:33:04 PDT

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There should be an option to customize alert sounds based on their source (one sound for e-mails, another for calendar alerts, etc.). An option to set a custom alert for messaging from a contact (just like custom ringtones now) would be good, too.

Comments (1)webOS™, applications, webos, developers

Quick Pause/Unpause of MP3

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:36 PDT

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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

Comments (2)Applications, music, mp3, hardware interface

UrbanSpoon

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:00:44 PDT

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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.

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Messaging Standard

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:51:50 PDT

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We need other messaging standards for the Palm Pre messaging app.
-Jabber/XMPP
-IRC [used in many corporations]
-Yahoo
-MSN
-Facebook chat

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Songs/Videos/Media Should Appear in Universal Search

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:09:33 PDT

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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.

Comments (1)Applications, music, video, media, search

Faster Way of Creating a new Event in Calendar

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:44:26 PDT

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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.

Comments (2)Applications, calendar, shortcut, reminder, event

google wave client

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:36:55 PDT

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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.

Comments (0)Applications, google wave

Interface inprovement for moving applications around in the Launcher

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:46:26 PDT

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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

Comments (1)Applications, launcher interface moving applications

Mono Support

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:22:28 PDT

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Pre should support mono developement. specifically, the moonlight mono/silverlight plugin.

Comments (0)Idea Box, mono silverlight .net moonlight

Top Ideas : preideas

Birthdays Should Show Up Automatically in Calendar

Bluetooth Pairing

Application Updates

The Mojo SDK should be publicly available

Categories for Contacts

SSH

Tethering

Web browser should zoom in when clicking into a form

Power API

Text Message Character Count

Centralized Alert Controls

Launcher Organization

Touchstone Display Options

Better control of Mp3s playback

Synergy needs a more obvious "merge" capability.

Custom alerts

Quick Pause/Unpause of MP3

UrbanSpoon

Messaging Standard

More Services to link to Photos

Songs/Videos/Media Should Appear in Universal Search

Faster Way of Creating a new Event in Calendar

google wave client

Interface inprovement for moving applications around in the Launcher

Mono Support