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This article is a place to collect various thoughts about the future of the OpenMoko software platform. Most wish list ideas have been linked from this page, but you may also wish to check all pages that have a category of 'Ideas'.
Our goal should be a completely painless setup for somebody wanting to develop using OpenMoko
No extra configuration required.
People like to see plugins for
evaluate eclipse project Device Software Development Platform Project from eclipse and subproject Tool for Mobile Linux
Glade code generation is deprecated, so we don't want to use it. The Gtk+ powers told me that the plan is to have gtk 2.12 (out early 2007) with support for GtkBuilder, a libglade derivative which breaks a bit the XML definition in order to support all the new widgets and properties; as soon as it's in the other ui builders will add support for this format. See also the relevant bug entry
There was a fruitful discussion about a built-in scripting language on the mailing list in January. Many people feel that it is very important for OpenMoko to choose a scripting language to ship as default in the standard OpenMoko firmware.
In the ideal case OpenMoko should exist on the top of the usual ./configure - make workflow which is typical for the majority of the C/C++ based open source projects. It should not require to rewrite or even replace the existing Makefile.am files of the project being ported, and it should allow to pass the needed parameters to the project configure script. Maybe OpenMoko project could be a bigger project having one or more (if some are libraries) autotools - based packages in its separate folders and include the proper documentation how to "wire" the standard autotools based package to the OpenMoko infrastructure.
The Trolltech folks have a great widget library. I'd like to interface OpenMoko with Qt4, so that we can write Qt4 applications for the phone which don't look alienated.
The Maemo folks have created a successful standard for Webpad applications. I'd like to have a set of MaemoMoko and MokoMaemo wrapper classes that allow me add support for running OpenMoko applications on Maemo and vice versa. Perhaps we can get help from the Nokia OSS folks for that.
wxWidgets is a cross-platform application framework that's very popular (I'd say, #3 after Qt and Gtk+). On Linux, wxWidgets uses Gtk+ to implement the widgets. It shouldn't be hard to add support for the additional OpenMoko classes to wxWidgets hence supporting the native OpenMoko look and feel for wxWidgets applications.
wxWidgets team wants OpenMoko classes too and we (wxWidgets) plan to include this project as one of our ideas for GSoC 2007
SDL is the game developer library. There are tons of SDL games out there. We should add OpenMoko support into SDL.
Allows to use MacOS X as a development platform.
Python bindings seem to be a commonly requested feature.
User:Mickey says, "They are kind of usable on the Nokia 770, but it's at the lower end of being bearable. We should keep this in mind -- Gtk+ already comes with Python Bindings, so we "just" would need to wrap libmoko*. I would prefer to leave this to the community do though, since it doesn't make sense to start wrapping the API until we have a stable API -- and I can imagine it will take us a couple of months after going open until we can start with stabilizing the libmoko API."
There is a whole skilled C++ community coming from the Qtopia and Opie projects. If we would consider basing OpenMoko C++ Bindings on Gtkmm, then we could drag these guys in.
Ruby and ruby-(gtk|glade) already ported to OpenMoko according to this and this mesages. It just have to be included to distribution (only 4.9 MB!)
People who concentrate on Java programming would like to have the OpenMoko port of some java virtual machine. GNU Classpath team a lot of great work in the past creating easily portable implementation. Sun's recently open sourced code could also be ported.
Infrastructure for developers with
In the future there could be complete, unofficial "product images" that are created by the community, for example maybe one that incorporates only free software (in the GNU or OSI sense). Or images build with a particular niche market in mind -- a student for example.
There could be a kind of voting system like they have at one of those big computer manufacturers homepage. Then the community could vote for the ideas that are most important to them. This would especially make sense for the hardware wishlist, because the hardware is still the part which can't be done by the community that easily.
Here: OpenMoko suggestion board
There are times when you wish to power up the device and not power up the gsm/cellphone portion of the phone. For example in meetings you might wish to access the PDA side with wifi as is the case for example on an aircraft. On booting some method of booting to pda mode would be good - several other phones offer this feature.
It may be forbidden in many countries, but many people use their cell phones while driving. With the touchscreen phones this is very dangerous: You have to stare at the tiny numbers on the screen and try to hit them with your thumb or try to decipher tiny script of contacts, while steering with the other hand. There should be a configurable driving mode where the interface has a reduced functionality (e.g. only contacts and dialing) with HUGE interface buttons that are easy to use with limited attention.
It would be nice if my number only showed up when I call people in my address book and was otherwise masked. The phone I have now either always shows my number or never or can be set on a per call basis. Having it done automatically based on the number dialed would be good.
Many people use calling cards, low-cost numbers and similar ways of reducing the costs of their calls. It would be nice to have a single panel that would allow you to configure the rules of dialing a number taking in to account such systems.
The ability to allow or deny outoging calls to certain numbers can be useful in a number of situations (e.g. the holder of the 'phone is a child, untrusted, etc.). This could be related to entries in the contact list, for example a user is only allowed to call people who are in their contact list.
Also lists for incoming calls? Some friends always come through, unknown numbers get rejected automatically.
Allowing or disallowing outgoing calls at certain times of the day could be useful, e.g. blocking a business phone from making calls outside of business hours.
Many phone users have complicated plans, things like unlimited incoming, 100 anytime minutes, 1000 evening minutes, etc. It would be nice if a user could input the various monthly airtime chunks their plan gives them, and then the phone could track how much is left in each chunk, i.e. How much anytime minutes are left this month? Optionally, the software could warn when someone is close to the monthly limit, to help avoid bigger bills. On (at least some) prepaid USSD can be used to check current balance.
Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) has shown to reduce stuttering in individuals by 70%. By using the microphone, it should be pretty simple to implement this on the OpenMoko. The DAF functionality should also be present during phone calls. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_auditory_feedback for more information.
On my locked phones I always find it annoying that one can not use other features while a call is in progress. In particular, I'd like to access the address book so that we can (1) give a caller someone else's phone number (or other info) and (2) lookup a phone number when using a calling card or some other proxy.
Similar request when using the browser (lookup passwords, todo list, etc).
On some cellphone networks you can pay to change the normal Ringback Tone that the caller hears when ringing, to a customised sound. This can partially be implemented on the phone. Issues are:
Also see Answering Machine.
Dialer could have a tab with big buttons which, when push, send sound clips over GSM to the person on the other end of the call. This feature is included in GizmoProject and is called sound blasts: http://support.gizmoproject.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=104 The buttons can have default sounds, but also have the ability to be customized.
It would also be useful for notifying people why you can't talk (for example, having an "I can't talk tight now - I'm in the library - this is a pre-recorded message" would be good. Also perhaps you could loop a pre-recorded sound in the background so you can lie about where you are, and have the ability to simulate a really bad connection.
The ability to hold the Neo near the microphone of a landline handset and have the Neo dial the landline by sounding DTMF tones. The DTMF tones could be generated in software or be pre-recorded files.
Graphically this could be done by adding a 'DTFM dial' button to a context menu. The user would select a contact then presses the 'DTMF dial' button to start the process. A small delay could also be added to allow time to put the Neo near the landline handset.
For the Neo to know which area code to use (or not use) the current or last GPS coordinates could be utilised.
An option to record phone conversations. Would be helpful to have the device always recording for every call, with the sound data encoded to low quality Ogg Vorbis or SPEEX and stored in RAM. At the end of the conversation the user would have the option to save to flash or discard the conversation. This idea could also be applied to voicemail so you could save voicemails locally.
T-Mobile recently rolled out a UMA service that hands off calls between the GSM network and WiFi access points. Only a few phones support it right now, this could be a rather unique feature if OpenMoko can implement it.
This can be combined with a GPS map to show where local free hubs are.
Shut up a ringing phone, without accepting or rejecting the call.
Another alternative might be to use microphone to recognize when the user gives an audible "Shhh!" command. This could prove difficult to determine with the simultaneous ringing, and possible in-pocket shuffling noises.
A really usable feature is to "reject with SMS/text message" - letting the user reply the caller choosing a previously setup template or typical response: "I'm in a meeting - I'll call you later" or "Can't take your call now, please call back in 10 minutes". This feature typically is a much better way to get your co-workers (ie boss) to back off, than to silently ignore the call.
The accelerometers could be queried while the phone is ringing to detect a firm tap on the phone. This would avoid the delays of fumbling to remove the phone from one's pocket to silence the ringer when you've forgotten to set it to silent mode. Just firmly tap the phone through your pocket, and the ringer will silence, like some Motorola pagers. Maybe single tap = silence; double tap = (activate voicemail or preset SMS).
On-Phone voice mailbox that records calls on the phone and retrieves voice messages from your mobile service provider's voice mailbox and saves them locally.
Can act profile-dependent.
Similar to mute, but plays a sound file for the user on the other end while they wait. The sound file could be chosen in some setup beforehand.
In Greece because of the various bill programs some people call a mobile phone, rings one time and then hangup. Then the user of the mobile phone calls the other user(using the CallerID recognition).
Using the microphone to detect ambient noise the ringtone volume could be adjusted automatically.
If the ambient noise exceeds a preset threshold, the ring vibrator could be activated. This is good for when people forget to enable vibrate mode when entering noisy environments.
Detection of ambient noise could also be used to subtract the noise from the audio signal. However this approach is best performed using two Microphones, one for the voice and the other to detect the noise.
Using the microphone to do active noise control on media player playback or telephone calls. This should be an independent module/library which can be used by any application which might require this feature. also provide a way to easily alter the parameters of the active noise control.
Hearing impaired people need louder speaker(but with less volume than hands free) and equalized sound, based on their hearing problems(example 20dB hearing loss from 2KHz to 4KHz). Older people 50+ years old need slower speech rate(time stretch, cut the big speech gups) and cleaner voice.
Please note also the Hearing Aid Compatibility regulations in the US. I have tried to summarize and clarify them here. I haven't yet discovered whether the FIC device is M or T rated. For many hearing impaired users, a tcoil coupling to their hearing aid (t3/T4 rating) would be preferable to manipulating sound output in other ways.
Button to temporarily disable microphone while talking for applications such as telephone, audio recording and (when available) movie recording.
Full page zoom is a very good feature. If possible, people would want to browse the internet with normal layout than a distorted one. It's best if I could double-tap a text or image block and zoom to a fit size.
The BigPageWidget proposal suggests 'Full Page Zoom' should be implemented as a widget available to all applications.
Built-in browser with the ability to install widget shortcuts (aka links) in the main phone menu, also some apis for interfacing with the other functionality of the phone like adding contacts, reading contacts, reading gps-psoition etc.. (maybe there is some defacto widget standard that could be used)
There is a W3C spec being developed, which may not be exactly what the original proposal had in mind, but it is about writing simple applications with HTML, SVG and JavaScript. It is mainly Opera's work, and while most developed widgets are not very useful, there are some that are, and it creates a very nice development platform, especially for mobile devices. So, I think it makes an awful lot of sense for OpenMoko to support this spec.
A real good programming area for competition with the iPhone, a singular video/music player would be great for multimedia. A seamless integration system, a la iTunes and iPod, would be extremely popular.
Using the Wi-Fi connectivity, a separate music program that supports wireless music sharing/ streaming (similar to what can be done when two computer running iTunes that are both on the same network) and that also supports internet radio.
It would also be nice to have some kind of "announce your musical taste" mode. This could be implemented using last.fm profiles, such that when e.g. in a crowded place a user nearby has a similar musical taste, both users get notified so they can share their music files with each other (perhaps using a photo for id). Great for discovering new music - and making friends!
- Possible copyright issues sharing music files?
Sure, but that's the user's concern, not the developer's. There's no way for us to know which audio files the user is permitted/not permitted to share.
It would be really great to be able to read :
In both landscape and portrait
Draw an image (and maybe add some text), then post to your blog.
Display the notes database as a Wiki. Inspiration: AcroWiki.
Native lookup dictionary and thesaurus and foreign translation dictionaries, also with support for Asian languages. Optional custom configurable (though preconfigured) interface with on-line versions of dictionaries, thesaurus and translation services.
Dictionary Something like ding:
advantages:
Support for vocabulary training with flashcard system (also usable for other content than foreign language words!)
A simply, drag & drop uploader, tagger and organizer to upload images on phone to Flickr, with support for various languages. A good base could be the cross-platform uploader jUploadr, written in Java and working on Windows, Mac and Linux. But, most of all, the best GPL program which actually do this work is Mobile Pushr, written in C and Cocoa for iPhone, must be probably ported in python to work on OpenMoko.
Any email or sms message or application that contains a telephone number should be click to dial, eg 1234567890. Addresses link to mapping software too?
Something for taking notes would be a nice feature: Tomboy has some nice syncing features and is gtk based.
Some Screenshots are here.
A nice calendar application should be implemented in OpenMoko. This tool should have a syncing feature with your desktop computer. The tool should have a reminder feature and other features like other mobile phones already have.
I think synchronization sould be handled by computer with opensync+syncml based tool, not by calendar itself. --Antono 12:25, 7 January 2008 (CET)
servers or whatever.
by integrating with whatever on-phone GPS mapping software the Neo ends up using.
One of the most useful apps on my Palm Pilot for me is pilot-db. It's GPL'd.
It'd be nice to have something like Joe's Goals always available, like my phone is, even when I'm disconnected from the net.
Use your phone instead of your notebook while at the gym, and get pretty graphs to admire after you're done.
keep Track of Prices in different shops and the products you have/don't have. Ideally using a barcode reader and gps. If it was made aware of recipes it could even tell you what to buy without entering a shoppinglist manually.
File data about fueling your car (date/time, liters, price, mileage, ...) and display some information (costs per month, average consumption, ...). Advanced features could include:
A background application which keeps track of your friends and reminds you when you have not talked, SMS, IM or mailed a person for more than # days.
Fill in statistics and compute probabilities for menstruation, fertility, mood. See http://www.getjar.com/products/48/MyGirls
Tags can be used by various applications. Requirement is interoperability for further enhancement.
Tags should be applied to contacts, calendar events, mail/sms, calls, places(GPS) and files.
http://tracker-project.org has all needed tagging-and-searching functionality and ready to be used on low-resourced devices.
If I arrive home and there are "@home" things in the to-do list, the Context based to-do list reminds me of that.
Once there is good TCP/IP connectivity on this phone, integration with corporate email/calendar/to do/contacts/etc servers would be a big advantage... near-real-time automatic email downloads and automatic bi-directional syncing are productivity boosters that you have to experience to appreciate. It turns your phone from a 'nice gadget to fiddle with' to a natural-feeling extension of your day-to-day life.
A database which stores securely PIN codes, login data, bank and email accounts, membership informations, and other valuable and private data. Entries can be ordered in a folder-like manner. Access to the database is given by a master password. The database as well as the master password are stored with strong encryption. For security reasons, the program asks again for entry of the master password after a certain period of inactivity. The database can be synchronized with a PC application (ideally written in Java for cross platform compatibility).
Examples: KWallet [2], Viskeeper [3], KeePass [4]
Six Neo1973 owners are having a chat in a cafe. They agree to split but meet later. They want to exchange their numbers with each other before they go.... The normal way to do this is for a rather longwinded repeating of numbers to each other, or half the people manually inputting numbers before phoning/texting the other half to complete the process. All in all its a fair number of button presses to get it sorted.
Instead the NEO could have a small app where the phones link up in a small peer to peer Bluetooth network and share automatically with one person initiating a request and the other detected NEOS agreeing/acknowledging the share. The initiating NEO would then sync the mini-group automatically by interrogating each phone and then sending the table of results. The NEOs would have to be clever about checking for duplicates in the address book and offering a choice to the user if there are any conflicts.
PROS:
CONS:
An application which shows on the today-screen how many SMS i've already sent in this actual month. Some have for example 150 free SMS to write each month. With that program you can see all the time how many SMS are left until the end of the period. As an alternative it could be a counter which counts backwards from a predefined number over a defined period.
The Wishlist:Profiles page documents many possible profiles - ways to configure the phone. Including ways to respond to calls, wifi and GPS events. And how to automatically switch between them.
For Text Input related ideas see Wishlist:Text_Input. Bear in mind that T9 can not be included For current development status of the messaging-app see: Messages.
There are many useful options that now can be used to full capacity:
Bringing a new GTK gui or a resized Qt gui out for the serverless Instant Messenger http://Retroshare.sf.net
In GSM networks so-called acknowledge-SMS are sent back to the SMS's dispatcher in order to indicate that the primal sms was received (as message delivery is only best effort and is not guaranteed). So in the SMS dialog there could be equal sized buttons with captions as 'send only', 'send and receive delivery status message' and 'send and notify (e.g. ring) when delivery succeeded'.
Related to the previous entry, these acknowledgment-sms' should be handled in a different way than normal SMS'. Most Motorola do this, while Samsung SGH series don't & clog the inbox, warn of a "new" message upon Status notification: Delivery Status Messages should be stored in a separate menu so they don't bloat the received-folder and you are able to quickly review the status of the messages you had sent.
SMS comes in, gets forward to your inbox, like any other piece of mail. Appropriate alerts and etc occur - again, just like for email. A simple SMTPD running on 127.0.0.1 that is hooked to an email-to-SMS translator that will send email addressed to 'SMS@localhost' (or whatever special address) out via SMS
There are many good suggestions for text input on the specific text input ideas page.
Additional and customizable Input Method Widgets (similar to virtual keyboard).
This could add soft-key functionality to games or other applications such as:
Personalized layouts could be associated with each application.
It would be really neat to be able to print over either bluetooth, Wifi, or USB. I can imagine wanting to print:
Cups contains a bluetooth printing backend, so (in theory) once you have your data in postscript format, you could hand it to cups and it'll do the rest. In practice, it depends on
NOTE: GTK+'s printing support seems to be very immature in 2.6 (which we need to use for some time). Gtk+ 2.10 contains much better printing support -- once we can use this, it should be more easy. |
There's always the possibility to render postscript ourselves, but this is not a piece of cake -- in general, printing is much harder than one would imagine.
Further details:
Sport tracker can be used to measure the distance/velocity from point A to point B (or it could have several intermediate stopping points) using GPS. This would be extremely useful for running, biking, hiking, etc.
A quick way to see what time it is.
Very simple (one click) count up / count down timers are very useful.
As already mentioned by Technil, a cycle computer could be created using gps. The sensor at the bike's wheel could transmit data via bluetooth or some cable that would be attached to an openmoko device. In order to save power, one could switch off the gps and only use the bike's sensor.
Run the NTP daemon using the GPS chipset as a reference clock, so that the Neo would have a very accurate time-of-day clock and would be able to serve time to other networked devices.
I don't know what it would take to implement this. Items to consider would be the availability of a 1 pulse-per-second hardware signal, the accuracy of timestamps delivered in NMEA messags, etc. Dealing with power-management issues (such as the device going to sleep) would also be challenging.
A tool to hack your brain
Check the timezone with GPS and adapt them.
One never knows when one may have to convert acre-feet into deciliters. A unit conversion tool makes all engineers and engineer wannabes much happier. And not only the engineers.
Ideas what kind of conversions a converter tool could do:
Length - Acceleration - Angle - Angular Velocity - Area - Capacitance - Radioactivity - Currency - Charge - Computer Memory - Conductance - Density - Energy - Illumination - Power - Force - Flow - Pressure - Speed - Temperature - Time - Torque - Viscosity - Volume - Weight
Roman Numerals - ASCII, Hex - Cooking - BMI - Clothing Sizes
Money Converter based on current rates from Internet... e. g. Dollar <-> Euro
Physical and Mathematical Constants GPS conversions
- link to or integration of a scientific calculator - link to or integration of a simple calculator
A good basis for such a converter tool could be the Palm program "units" from François Pessaux [11]. The GPL'd program comes with full documentation.
For GPS conversions see gpsbabel [12]
Many engineers, computer scientists and other groups who have grown to enjoy the simplicity and ease of an postfix notation calculator will miss them when they give up other platforms to move to OpenMoko. A RPN calculator will increase adoption by providing one of the tools that other platforms have provided for many years.
On ARM machine, Windows CE API emulator, like Wine on x86 machines.
The Access group is probably coming out with their Linux platform any time soon. One of the components is a PalmOS emulator which I'd like to see working on OpenMoko as well. There are literally thousands of PalmOS apps.
I'd like to see a Windows CE Emulator with active sync support.
Display a TV guide using xmltv. Something like Maxemum TV-Guide (QT)
Give the phone some info about your body (gender, size, weigth) and when/what you drink and it will compute an approximation of the amount of alcohol in your blood. Updates automatically, could have an alarm, when you are probably sober again. See, for example (German text) http://www.misterio-online.de/promille.htm
With the accelerometers, GPS and good CPU, the phone could be used to control/serve as input with robots built with LEGO Mindstorm, which can be accessed by USB and Bluetooth.
Simple finger application that makes every pixel on the entire screen white to be as bright as possible until you tap the screen again to turn it off. This way, you can use your Neo as a (short term) flashlight!
Use the accelerometers and buttons on screen to work as a Wii controller via Bluetooth.
Ability to use FUSE to mount larger file systems over wireless. (even gmailfs, sshfs, etc.)
Accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Ability to use the phone for VOIP over wi-fi such as Vonage. They currently have 2 different pieces of software for pc . Basically software creates a mac address which is paired with your Vonage account. Skype could also be implemented but I prefer Vonage. Only available when connected to wi-fi with a good connection. Phone treats calls the same as a cellular call, could keep a separate log of minutes, ability to record conversations, etc. Option to use VOIP if connection is available automaticly or manually. Small icon to show when call is using VOIP.
(Note: Vonage will not give you your SIP credentials, so you cannot log into their network with a non-approved softphone. Other VoIP providers have different policies.)
This seems very similar to what UMA offers.
Asterisk is a great communication platform that can run on small devices. I have an Asterisk server running on a Nokia 770 and I read about running Asterisk on an iPhone. With the crosscompiler available it sould be possible to compile it and run Asterisk on an openmoko phone and let it take care of almost everything on the wishlist below. Edw/
If the power bar is clicked on it will show time left on charge and if charging it will show time until full.
Ability to "flick" the phone for page up/down by simply and rapidly tilting the phone back-and-forth for up and forth-and-back for down. The same motion can be implemented for sideways motion. This will take advantage of the 2 3d accelerators.
Sensitivity of the scrolling should be configurable and a test option provided.
If the two accelerometers in Neo1973 allows it, it will be nice if when you're reading, give a newspaper, you can move up, down, left and to the right the viewing of the document just moving the phones to the corresponding direction.
I don't know if this is possible (haven't seen the project in detail yet) but this feature could be very attractive for final users (and this is good). (sorry for my english but i'm italian)
In keeping with the requests to think outside of the box... the dual 3d accelerometers should enable a 'magic wand'-style UI for certain uses. Macros could be recorded and edited, or presets could be used. For example, flipping the device playfully could initiate a game mode or could signal the end of the work day.
Giving the phone a shake enables voice commands for a few seconds. Usage Examples:
Would require a method of inputting voice tags for applications and contacts and obviously will only work for P2 (accelerometers) But lets get voice command functionality working before P2 (just by pressing a button on the screen instead of shaking)
I think that is possibly to replace "Shake" with double hit with finger in the side of phone. Proper algorithms(with accelerometers) should recognize any similar activities.
When the accelerometer detects a great acceleration (i.e. 5G) start a countdown sequence, if it is not stopped make a call to a preconfigured emergency number. If the data from the GPS is accurate give it.
A first version could use a recorded message (an audio file). In next version it could use a synthesizer, so it can give more information (add GPS information when it is ready).
By detecting that the owner is walking a user defined profile can be activated with a specific set of notification settings. For example you may wish to use a cheap old sounding ringtone so you don't attract attention from muggers. Or you may wish to have a louder ringtone if you carry your phone in a bag where it can't be so easily heard.
Imagine a first person shooter that you look around by turning your body.
Shaking the phone will produce a sloshing sound, as if it contained a liquid. As the battery loses charge, so the sound produced on being shaken, will replicate a decreasingly empty container. [13] for an example.
Also see the pagesWishlist:Auto Align Map, Wishlist:Determine Position, Distance Measuring, Wishlist:Computer Mouse, Wishlist:Dynamic Screen Orientation.
A good, stylus friendly VNC client/host combo would be easy to add and terribly useful.
Whether it's running true X-Windowing over the network, or your bog-standard VNC connection as mentioned above, the ability to have your phone's screen available on your laptop or palmtop would be most desirable.
A form of X-windows forwarding optimized for performance over slow, or high-latency links, which could prove extremely useful. Capable of streaming a good quality, full desktop session over modem speeds. The protocol and at least one implementation is gpl'd. wikipedia
I Think it is a good idea to control your OO Presentation with Openmoko about WLAN or Bluetooth. I think it needs some buttons to go back or forward and control the mouse to show something and take normal mouse clicks. But with the mouse clicks I think that we need a short time between the clicks in example 1 second. Because when you make a mouse click than to fast than you must go back.
Control Amarok or any other Media Player with OpenMoko (as a remote control). Bluetooth or WLAN could be used as protocol to send and receive the data. Maybe a WebInterface of Amarok is a start. Can be used on parties for a mobile music management.
Send a SMS with Code to the OpenMoko (from a specific number). For example to send get the GPS coordinates from a stolen Neo (or if you don't know where your Neo is).
If anyone wants to get your private data saved on your OpenMoko device, he should have to get through a high security mechanism like dm-crypt. The question is how much CPU power would be needed. Would it be an idea to encrypt only the private data like phone numbers, preferences, address book etc. (like /home/$USER).
A way to securely store information about the phone, and ensure that a phone you may be considering purchasing is not stolen.
Something that allows the user to speak with another person securely.
This software application would allow GSM encrypted calls to be made using the GSM Data Call Channel.
Use voice recognition to unlock the phone. "Hi. My name is ... My voice is my passport. Verify me."
A network firewall
Full mac support, preferably with full software and full sync capabilities with iCal and iMail
This application would enter the phone into an Anti-Theft Mode which activates particular security features to reduce the risk of theft and also to ensure a higher probability of recovery of a stolen handset.
Assuming an RFID reader is available: You'd put an RFID tag on your keys, wallet, etc and train a program on the phone to give you a soft or hard alert when one of them leaves detection range. That way, if you're walking away from one of them, the phone could alert you.
This application allows to configure the device as an OpenVPN client using the GUI including support for X.509 certificates.
A help system that is either on or off. It could be activated and deactivated by a five-second-press on a button, for example the AUX button. When the help system is activated, it will explain the use of any item you touch on screen (with stylus or finger). Example: if you touch the battery icon, it will explain that this shows battery level / remaining time. If you touch the date / time icon, it will explain that this icon shows date and time, and that if you press it, you can set date and time. Primarily, this help system should be able to explain all user interface elements in the main screen, but if it proves popular, it could be expanded to cover other applications as well.
The DMA engine in the CPU can substantially speed up moving of large areas of screen in some cases.
In some other cases, the hardware supported virtual screen may also speed it up.
The BigPageWidget Page decribes a widget that could bring full natural page viewing, scaling, scrolling to the OM platform - allowing all applications to make intuitive UIs. A good way to read documents of any type without reformatting them massively increases the utility of a device with a small screen
Dial by voice commands.
Dial by dictating phone number. This way we can voice dial any number even if not in our contact list.
Music can be played through a Bluetooth headset, but would stop playing when a call comes in.
Let OpenMoko devices connect to one another via bluetooth or another connection method (GPRS for long distance but high latency, probably Wifi on P2), and hold a conversation.
Features for this applications can be:
Local (non-GPRS) use cases include chatting while biking or motorcycling in a group; perhaps also in a car caravan. This application could also be used as a baby-phone to monitor your siblings.
This would be more useful if the Neo had Class 1 bluetooth, though probable Wifi on P2 will also offer more range.
(One thumbs up from me) Jackcday
Automatically synchronize with desktop computer (or with any SyncML server) when within range based on user profile. This may require the use of a secure data transfer.
Allow Bluetooth to automatically turn off after loosing connectivity and to automatically turn back on based upon GPS location.
A Bluetooth device is configured for automatic reacquisition based on the following profiles:
Each target device is configured as follows:
Examples devices include: computers
The location and range of the target device is determined via training. Periodically, the current GPS coordinates and Bluetooth signal strength are logged. Additionally, connectivity loss events are logged. An algorithm uses these logs to determine the device location and range.
Connection attempts are made when in a configurable proximity to the device. The first attempt when entering the proximity and further attempts at a configurable interval.
Example devices include: automobiles
Mobile devices are configured to have two types of locations:
A car is mobile, ideally, when you leave your car, the phone should note the car's location when connectivity is lost and then attempt to reacquire the car when you return to the location of the car.
As mobile devices may have multiple users, it is not sufficient to always use the last known location. In this case, the device may additionally have multiple homes. For example, a car might have as its homes: home garage and work parking lot.
Like the one laptop per child (OLPC) interface, keep a number in the status bar that represents a count of other openmoko or compatible bluetooth devices in the area. Allow for the spontaneous initiation of a chatroom or multiplayer game or file trading with any moko in the area.
Capability to detect when a predetermined bt device enters/leaves bt range and launch a system-wide event accordingly. This would feed not only the "Neighbour detection" idea described above, but also the "Profiles", "Context based TO-DO list" and "Location-based reminders" ideas. Reminders could be set to trigger in the presence of a specific person X (with BT device Y). Profiles can take into account which devices are present around the phone (car kit, for ex.). To-do list could also change according to present devices.
Use the phone to run your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation remotely using Bluetooth. Cool features:
Remote control over Bluetooth from other devices to control media player (play, pause, next, previous, volume control), camera (capture image), etc.
Remote control over Bluetooth to other devices to control media player, lights in your house, etc.
Remote is my draft of a python-based remote control app that allows you to define button sets and commands to run on the local or a remote host (through ssh, for instance). Error handling and command interface need work.--Mjr 11:14, 18 October 2007 (CEST)
Z-wave uses web-browser control of devices that is said to be compatible with mobile phone browsers so should work with openmoko browser. www.z-wave.com
Have a deeper connection to the car than just handsfree speakerphone. For instance a transceiver with challenge/response systems to open, possibly even start the car. Possibly go as far as OBD connection to monitor car status on screen/log for later.
Could be done with a port of Carman or similar that can connect to an OBD2 adapter via USB or Bluetooth and display various information collect from the car, GPS, and accelerometers. --bmk789
When in range of the car navigation system, remember the position (perhaps check with the car GPS). When not in range, assumme that you are not in the car, and offer the opportunity to navigate to the car's last known position. That way, you can find your car e.g. on a large parking lot.
As the Neo1971 does not come with dual-SIM support this could be solved by joining your old bluetooth-enabled mobile to your OpenMoko-phone.
Let SIM card A be in your OpenMoko-phone and SIM card B in your old mobile:
This way you'd have your old phone switched silent and connected to your OpenMoko-phone that handles all the calls and one can select which SIM card to use. Advantage: No 'switching' between cards Disadvantage: Second mobile needs to be in range(e.g. handbag) and charged every once in a while.
If the device could function as a Bluetooth router/gateway to the internet via the GPRS/data connector, then you could use it to get network connectivity from your laptop and other devices while on the road. Many smartphones can be configured as modems via Bluetooth for use as Dial-Up Networking connectors, and that should be the minimum target. Ideally, if the WiFi functionality was used so the OpenMoko could be an 802.11 router or peer to peer gateway for a laptop, this would be even better. The full bandwidth of GPRS or whatever network is available would then be available.
Anybody running the social networking app will be broadcasting a profile, and when certain keywords are matched with other users who are also running the application, an alert is sounded. Each mokoid can be added as a hexstring to a profile page, and xml filters can be developed for each social service to convert various keywords and interests to moko-friendly format.
I have tried bluetooth handsfree sets with other phones and don't get perfect reception due to low signal strength. I suppose the reason the signal is so weak is because the manufacturer wants the battery to last long on its latest charge. Can you please make the strength setting configurable by the user of the phone through an api and perhaps even through the phones gui? I would gladly waste some battery time in exchange for stronger bluetooth signal strength.
One annoyance I've had with Wifi enabled gadgets is that they simply keep the connections in a dumb list. What I'd like to see is more granular connection management, which enables me to specify whether a given connection is friend & family (mom's place), professional client (joe's copies and coffee), commercially available (panera), onetime use, or anything else, as well as managing router config backups, firmware images, and security keys.
Having a nice front-end to some sort of script that checks the authenticity of a captive portal login page (SSL cert), then passes your username and password login information to automatically log you into your account would be very nice as well. This can be done with curl, but it is difficult to make it work on all captive portals out there. Perhaps just a field that you can specify "once I am connected to this AP, run this script: ".
HSDPA support and the like, so that users can connect directly with the internet with G3/G4 mobile service providers at speeds at or above 3.6 Mb/s.
A small tool which is configurable to download the latest OpenMoko and OpenMoko related software. Maybe if any internet connection is available or a minimum of bandwith is available then the auto update would download only security related or the whole system etc. .
An application that would allow the user to define their own vibration patterns, and possibly link them to audio files. Recording would be done in real time initiated with a "Record" button, optionally playing the associated sound file in sync with recording). While recording, the user would press and hold a button to define the timing and duration of vibration. The user would press "Stop" when finished. Vibration patterns would have the option of being looped(would terminate at some global ringtone length maximum).
One simple suggested vibration file format would be a sort of run-length encoding: First byte defines the length of a "time-slice" in milliseconds, which would determine the overall tempo(actually the inverse of tempo). The next byte would define the number of time-slices to leave the vibration on, and then another byte for how long to pause after. Continue alternating these on/off bytes until the entire pattern is defined.
- or just use MIDI, using a separate channel for the vibrator.
An implementation of RTTL could also be used to define vibration patterns.
Provide a method to use the touchscreen as input device for a nearby desktop machine. Could connect over USB or bluetooth.
Could emulate a pointer device (mouse) or even keyboard using standard bluetooth/USB interfaces for such a device.
Use case: Alice is lazing on a couch and doesn't want to get up to do some minor interaction with the computer. She can see the screen and uses the OpenMoko device as a mouse and/or keyboard to interact with the computer.
ANARM would be an application for handling all event-based audible notifications from an OpenMoko device.
Location based reminders can be used to notify users of various events or reminders that are location based.
A synergy client would enable the user to place the device next to a desktop PC and share the desktop`s mouse, keyboard and clipboard over a TCP/IP network. Synergy
List features for your fantasy device to come from FIC (or anyone else, for that matter). Define the GTA03 here ;-)
From Wurp's blog:
Clearly the Next Big Thing has to be for the device to go away altogether. I know the basic idea for wearables has been around forever, but it seems to me that the time has come.
I wanna wear a bluetooth earpiece and cool shades, possibly with [ here's where my imagination is failing me :-( ] gloves, or fingerless gloves, or (ew) wristbands, and let any surface, including my hand, or no surface, be my interface. Tap the earpiece when you get a phone call, see a dial pad on your palm and tap out the number with the other hand, watch movies on a giant screen hovering in the air...
(equipment list: bluetooth earpiece, some brick in my pocket or on my belt, glasses w/ minute camera, painted video display, & variable darkness lenses, and gloves)
Why the hell do I want to dig out a device every time I want mindless entertainment or superficial conversation?
Ideally, you could then sell any little doohickey with whatever interface you want (switches, knobs, g-spots, ...) and all it needs to do is network with some software on the brick to be anything at all...
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It could be use for beepway Online service too [14]
Having not yet seen a physical Neo device, I haven't been able to examine any of the IOs to see if there already is a dedicated power / charger input. However, I can imagine that it might be very tempting to have the device charge solely via USB. For any device that is capable of USB-host, that is a horrible idea.
Since the device is able to run in USB host mode, it might be a good idea to allow for an alternate power supply, if say, a USB keyboard was being used for several hours. Rather than drain the battery, one could just supply power via the wall outlet while still providing endless hours of USB-host enjoyment for those hard-coders on the go.
The main question is just deciding on where to take power from if in USB-client mode and the power cable is inserted, but really, that's not too big of a deal and can be solved with very minimal circuitry.
This might sound extraneous at first, but when the device shuts down in the middle of an important USB file transfer, or right before that great piece of code was saved, you can bet that those users will be saying "Hmm... a separate power adapter would have really come in handy right now".
I suggest a tiny 3mm, dedicated +5V power input (something a la Nokia).
Assuming the hardware has a vibrator/buzzer for silent calls, use a lightly pulsed version of that to simulate tactile feedback when dragging finger across buttons on-screen. Implemented properly, it would almost feel as if the buttons were real.
Hardware keyboard that can be attached with magnets to a future version of the Neo.
A bluetooth mini-qwerty keyboard that straps to my wrist!
I think the Neo1973 should have a normal SD card slot as the micro is too small, and the SDs have more space. [unknown author]
SD Cards now support 32GB. Their storage density will always be multiples ahead of microSD (now at only 2GB). An SD Card slot will:
Without an easily accessible higher storage SD Card slot, many users will soon be playing the juggling game of which data to delete from the much smaller and harder to swap microSD card. This is especially true for OpenMoko users, who are more likely to be power users than is the average mobile phone carrying population. Why carry an OpenMoko and an iPod, when you can simply add an SD Card slot? --Pedro 20:06, 17 March 2008 (CET)
Cfriedt 12:40, 24 February 2008 (CET) -- I completely agree with a more accessible SD card slot. It should be made external for quick removal / insertion. I realize that would mean program data shouldn't reside on the SD, but really 256 MB of on-board flash is plenty. Mirco or normally-sized, a regular-sized SD is still trivial to implement in terms of solder pads and traces.
Remote control applications
Would be great to use openmoko as a Harmony remote controller.