Are you missing an app in your Nokia N9? Or a functionality that an installable app could cover? two threads (here and here) have been opened by qgil as an attempt to highlight applications that are missing in the Nokia Store, in order to bring the attention of developers of those apps or alternatives.
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Use the following example to add apps or comments: App linked to store - Shortest description.
Why you miss this app. Is it for a feature that other apps could provide? Is it a specific brand or service you are after?
Other people is encouraged to add more arguments.
If the app is not available in the Nokia Store you can link it to another catalog e.g. Windows Phone marketplace.
Hope my prayers for Nokia play to, shazam and whatsapp may be answered :)
This post is simply about some features that if correctly implemented, it'll make the N9 more reliable and productive utility ! And Frankly, coming from an N8 and an N900, i'm badly missing some essential features that need to be reconsidered by Nokia folks and management team and some nasty bugs that make other alternatives more reliable for daily tasks, i mean why should have an N9 with those bugs if my N8 and N900 (and iPhone 4) just work as expected?!
I'll list the most critical ones that annoy me, you can check out bugzilla and fill your own bugs or feature requests ;) Some feature request were stated as "wontfix", you'll find reasons after bug description !
Agreed. Nokia Link does not provide some features that Nokia Suite provided.
Unfortunately, Nokia Suite support is not planned for N9. However, your
feedback has been put forward to the management.
I would recommend you to directly use WLAN on your phone to download maps.
As for the sending/viewing text messages, phone is the way to go :)
- Remove notification of new email when marked read on the server ( bug : 152 )
- Messageserver with high CPU utilization and mail is not sync'd ( bug : 198 )
- Email Client doesn't recognize phone numbers ( bug : 502 )
- Email file manager don't find a file i want to attach ( bug : 503 )
- Back to homescreen when Delete email from the lockscreen pop up (Bug 403)
- search on server support missing (Bug : 506)
* Automatic Contact birthdays Sync on calendar (Bug 158)
Thanks for the report. It has been already fixed internally and will be available in future updates.
* Better use of the notification light (Bug 389) :
Thanks for your feedback.
Unfortunately this is the behavior by design that LED notifications would be
redundant and just consume power. Of course it could be useful to have led
notifications if Low Power Mode(LPM) is disabled, but there are no plans to
change this intentional behavior. Most people will be happy with LPM. Thanks.
Search application is actually pretty fast and list you all the possible
options. Also the contacts icon is just beside the dialler and does not any
additional traversal. Unfortunately there are no plans to change this behavior
by design. However thanks for your valuable input.
* No sharing option available in the Music Player (bug : 92) :
Thanks for your feedback. This behavior is intentional as we do not intend to
encourage the distribution of music files from our apps.
* Play Video, Music and Pictures to DLNA clients/TVs (Bug 405)
* Get rid of "SMS" option to landlines numbers (Bug 404)
* Tapping on a message in search results doesn't open the message itself ( bug : 124 )
Ps : Some of bugs listed above are already fixed or under consideration, let's hope the most critical ones will be a part of the next PR1.2 as really the experience was a lot iPhone-like dumbed (even more) and if i want a dumbed "smart"phone, thanks i have already an iPhone and with a lot of application and tweaks that keep me forgetting its limitations...
And you? Are you facing some nasty bugs that annoy your user experience? Or Having some feature requests? Vote for the existing ones or create your owns, share your experience :)
Shutdown is a simple Utility to shutdown or reboot your N9 :
but its particularity is that there is an option to create two one-click icons for reboot and shutdown which will appear on the homescreen.
FAQ :
How do I delete the 1-Click icons (shutdown, reboot)?
You will have to manually delete crochik-shutdown.desktop and crochik-reboot.desktop from /home/user/.local/share/applications. You can do this using the x-terminal or a file manager (please note the /home/user/.local is a hidden folder).
I have installed version 0.0.1
In order to see the new icons you first need to remove manually the 1-click shortcuts (see above)
Don't want the device screensaver to go on when using applications like speedometers, timers, etc.? BackLighter does just that.
BackLighter disables the screensaver from dimming the device while the application is left running and set to ON. The screensaver can be once again enabled by setting the switch to OFF position or by closing the application.
BackLighter also makes it possible to adjust brightness with several convenien settings.
Christmas eCards allows you to create beautiful e-cards containing professional backgrounds and cliparts all with Christmas theme. You can also add any text or photos with colorful frame decoration.
The eCards is very easy to use as it uses multi-touch for moving, rotating and scaling items on the phone screen.
The specs on the iPhone 4S’s new camera does sound impressive? 8 megapixels, 1080p video, f/2.4 lens, improved image stabilization and LED flash. The description at Apple’s Web site might seems mouth-watering for most of "us", and the non-retouched images taken by the 4S are beautiful.
- Industry-first imaging sensor which is FULLY optimised for BOTH 16:9 AND 4:3 images
- Industry-leading Carl Zeiss optics
- Super wide-angle optics – the widest in the industry. Up to as much as 60% more viewing area than other broadly comparable devices
- f/2.2 aperture – largest ever in a mobile device and Focal length of 3.77mm / 28mm.
- Extremely responsive, especially switching from stills to video and vice-versa and shot to shot
- Touch AF for both video and stills
- Full time continuous AF in BOTH video and stills plus face detection
- HD video with stereo audio (still one of very few devices that provide high quality audio recording in video)
- Seamless workflows optimised for speed or editing & sharing
- Zoom in to images directly in the post capture view, edit and share all without leaving the camera – the most seamless mobile imaging experience
- Non-destructive editing of images – go back to the original image at any time. Undo or redo edits even months later
- New high power dual LED flash – 20% more powerful than our previous most powerful LED flash despite its compact size
- Geo tagging with place names rather than just co-ordinates
- AMBR – Automatic Motion Blur Reduction
- Not forgetting the touch to share of images between handsets using NFC technology
In other words :
- 28mm wide angle Carl Zeiss Optics. Oh that will be unique to Nokia too. It means you can get more in every picture/video
- True 16:9 video/image capture, which NO OTHER smartphone on the planet can do
- The N9's aperture is f/2.2 everyone, that means the N9 camera receives more light than the new iPhone 4s (Apple needed 73% more light from larger f/2.4 aperture to compensate for smaller pixels)
But ! I hate to say it, but for the average user, the iPhone 4S’s camera will, in many ways, be fine knowing how Apple tunes pictures to look vivid but is that what you want? Don't worry Nokia lovers because all N9 camera goodness will make it to other devices from Nokia !
I usually do not write articles like this, but it becomes heavy to bear to read negative reviews about Nokia, Symbian, Maemo and the future of symbian ^ 4, in a fierce market more increasingly "dominated" (mindshare) by Android and Apple platforms IOS ...
That said, my idea for a while was that the staff management nokia does not really have a "clear" idea about their environment (clear targets : where are we, where we would come, do we care about other brands?)... and this has been the case since the launch of the ridiculous iPhone (that i own now!), a ridiculous phone (one and only one phone) that establish "standards" of the smartphone market every time !
It is as if Nokia has ever existed ! Which is true in some ways, Nokia was not a real product competitive in the smartphone market touchscreen (N810, 770 etc.) except the 5800 and in some ways the N97 ... but never an iPhone Killer. .. I say iPhone because it's the one that changed the strategy of all firms in the mobile's area in the last 3 years ! including Nokia ...
It's true that Nokia has made an ashamed move by releasing the N900 (Maemo 5) and i was really happy to see finally an iPhone Killer, but things weren't as expected, the N900 and Maemo 5 is one of others (or another) project in dust by Nokia, a beta testing platform not destined for the large public, and "abandoned" by Nokia itself to make MeeGo... WTF !?
I mean, what Nokia are doing is just catching up with Android and IOS until now...but let me make things more clearer...take a second and think about it a little :
- MeeGo will be rolled out on Media phones, Netbooks, Pocketables/Handhelds, In-car entertainment systems as well as Connected TVs, that's really great, Nokia will probably have a great opportunity to implement OVI services everywhere i guess ! Meanwhile, the open-Community is getting really excited about MeeGo being an open platform.
But is MeeGo the way to go?
As we learned till now, Manners maketh a man, Services maketh a platform !
How can they bring back the massive “Faithful” user-base which Google has acquired with Android !? The constant support and community interest is currently reflected in the constantly evolving ANDROID
What i mean, i'm afraid of the fact that "whatever MeeGo or symbian^4 can do, Android and IOS already does and Does it Better" but i'm still confident and sure that Meego will be an iconic plateform and will establish "standards", and i can give many reasons with out thinking much:
- MeeGo can work on any Hardware platform like intel chips, X86 and ARM.
- MeeGo Platform is completely open source.
- MeeGo contains QT as UI development.
- MeeGo is not locked to any language like JAVA.
- MeeGo comes from already proven platform like Maemo.
- Develop the application once and use it on many devices.
Android and IOS sure have probably the bigger mindshare for now, but I believe MeeGo platform is intrinsically superior, because they share more of their platform with upstream project and use a Native SDK by default. Ultimately I don’t see any of those two die soon.
Are they going to become the new enemy brother in a long genealogy : vi vs emacs, gnome vs kde, MeeGo vs Android ? I don't think so because already stated that it'll compete with ANDROID and IOS by Symbian^4 but meego will be mainly for tablet and pc like superphone, but hey wait a moment ! We are not talking anymore about OS and Services here but also about User Interface !
Nokia, did you see some videos on youtube demonstrating some UI wow effects on some iPhones and Android phones? Do you certainly agree when i say it's just something you're dreaming about in your promo videos (Except the N900) !
Do you want me to show you something about the iPhone's one (with the latest IOS 4)? No, not really ;)
So what you have to do really is making UI as close to real life experience and that is easy to operate as it is our natural way of acting - this may change way we operate mobiles, Symbian^4 has to deliver something... of top quality and be the most intuitive and attractive one beside MeeGo ! But then, why didn't you buy WebOS? Are you happy now that one of the most talented WebOs User Interface Designer has gone to Apple? That sounds good doesn't it?
And android 3? Do you know that the whole interface will be something like this :
Or let's talk only about windows 7 !
And now what? I'll drop my complaint right here : as you know, i own many many symbian devices from Nokia 7650 to Omnia HD and Vivaz, i'm going to buy the N8 also, because till now symbian plateform is the only one that offer a rich and advanced multimedia experience in a well balanced combination... i own also an N900 which is a really great multimedia and social ready device...Ok till now :
What you don't know probably, is that i own an iPhone 3Gs and i'm thinking to sell my N900 or at least don't use it as my primary device, but why? In one word : the iPhone is simply great ! (yeah i was one of those heaters...) :
- Apple's sense of design and integration is impeccable. (and i don't have iPhone 4 yet !)
- Fantastically capable, flexible device (no lags, fluid UI even while surfing and listening to music etc)
- You don't have to be smart about how you use apps to avoid draining the battery
- I have the right applications for all my needs, games all of kinds and needs (even a METALLICA games, my favorite band) and while im a Muslim, i've a plenty of Islamic apps, especially in this Ramadan holly month ! With N900 : Zero (one or two) !
- Great inboard keyboard, i don't need a real keyboard anymore...
Wake Up Nokia ! Sooner, I'll make a side by side comparison with N900 vs iPhone and you'll be blowed !
A very cool feature that i missed from Symbian : you don't have to hold the phone to your ear while waiting for the call to be connected.. You can call and hold the phone down.. when it vibrates, bring it up to your ear and talk ! That's all about out-call-vibro
If MyContacts allowed a custom ringtone per group, then finally, ringtoned, i.e. ringtone daemon, allows setting a custom ringtone for specific contacts. Ringtoned tries to integrate nicely with the system:
- You can select the default ringtone in Settings → Profiles as usual
- To set a custom ringtone you go to the Contacts application, select the contact and press the new “Set custom ringtone” button in the menu
- The dialog to set custom ringtones tries to be a perfect copy of the dialog to set the global ringtone
- It works both for normal phone calls and GTalk/SIP/Skype calls, thanks to Telepathy
- The ringtone is played only when the normal one would be played and at the same volume, thanks to some PulseAudio magic
Shortly before the end of the football World Cup 2010 in South Africa there is now the World Cup 2010 Schedule App free POI Store. Information so that you get to the games already completed, results, tables, and the next game pairings.
Of course, World Cup 2010 Schedule a live score to keep you always in the running.
eSpeakTime is a simple talking clock daemon. Activate it by double-pressing the power button while the display is locked. This package provides the long-running daemon responsible for monitoring power button events.
restinpeace (RIP) is an application that sounds an alarm when the phone registers itself with a pre-defined GSM/WCDMA CellID, useful if you fall asleep in the tramway when going to the school or to the work :)
Charging LED Clock modifies the charging LED pattern to indicate time : The charging and battery full LED batterns blink to indicate the current hour and minute with 5 minute precision.
concept:
time display with LED. When the phone is on charge.
Why do you want?
when I go to sleep.I usually put my phone (N900) away from me.
because I can turn the alarm off in my sleep.
is convenient when you can see the time at a distance.
implementation
use Morse code (only idea morse code)
12 hour 57 minute
looks like this: -** -----****(*)** //- long signal LED * short signal LED (*)signal brighter //
does not look very comfortable.
offer a minute rounded up a dozen
that is
12 hour 57 minute = 1 hour (code: *)
4 hour 16 minute = 4 hour 20 minute (code: **** **)
9 hour 33 minute = 9 hour 30 minute (code: ****(*)**** ***)
12 hour 22 minute = 12 hour 20 minute (code: -* **)
3 hour 42 minute = 3 hour 40 minute (code: *** ****)
Xarchiver is a Desktop Environment independent GTK+ 2 frontend for manipulating 7z, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, tar, zip, and RPM files. It allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar, and zip formats are supported.
This is only a front-end. If you want to support a specific archive format, please install the appropiate packages: It is recommended to install the following packages:
gnutar - support for .tar archives gnuzip - support for .gz, .tar.gz .tgz archives zip or zip3 - support for creating .zip archives unzip - support for unpacking .zip archives unrar - support for unpacking .rar archives arj - support for .arj archives lha - support for .lha and .lzh archives p7zip - support for .7z archives
As you already know, Desktop Command Execution widget is one of the most useful widgets on your Maemo desktop. It can be used to show certain information (for example battery level in percentage) or as a button which can be used for example to disconnect active internet connection (you need to tap 3 times and also wait for menus to appear without this widget). Therefore it can replace many other applications/widgets/applets and you can also make something new.
Also, with the help of Alarmed or Fcron you can set a command to be executed at specific intervals (every minute, hourly, on specific weekdays, on last day of month etc...)
Here you'll find a collection of scripts that work in these applets :
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
Enna's features:
- Browse and listen to your music files,
- Browse and watch at your videos files,
- Browse and play slideshow with your photos,
- Retrieve informations about your media files on the Internet,
- Build a database of your medias and retrieve information from your music, video ... (such as covers, fan arts, songs lyrics and many much more).
Enna is available for your favorite mobile phone. It comes optimized and pre-configured for your mobile to find all your possible multimedia contents. In order to install it, go to Package Manager and add a new repository:
Name: GeeXboX URL: http://packages.geexbox.org Distribution: fremantle Component: main
Proceed with packages database update and then:
- Hit the Download icon.
- Choose Multimedia application.
- Select Enna Media Center.
If you've some packages conflicts, try installing Enna manually trough the App Manager :
Well, it's available since testerday at Extras-devel !
As you probably have understood already, the PhotoTranslator is not a final version yet and it lacks features. It may, or it may not work as you expect, but as stated before, use it at your own risk. They also needed to remove bunch of languages from the application because they increased the package size to 95M.
PhotoTranslator supports only the following languages from tesseract i.e. the languages that it can read from the images (OCR) at the moment:
English
Finnish
German
Spanish
Portuguese
NOTE: This means that you can translate, but you can only use the OCR for the languages listed above. The workaround for this is that you can write the text manually and then translate it.
PhotoTranslator Beta Features
For beta version they are planning to implement the following set of features:
- Separate package for each supported language
- User can download different language packages via PhotoTranslator
- Disabled buttons for languages that are not installed
- Support for capturing images with PhotoTranslator
Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia
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Digia today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Qt
software technologies and Qt business from Nokia and further extend the
cross-platform ...
