S60 Open to new features

I've been testing Best Desk for two days now. There are a couple of little bugs still here and there but otherwise this program is GREAT!!! The support of Smartphoneware is amazing. They have answered to all of my bug reports and feature requests promptly. Yesterday they even sent me an updated version fixing the problem 20 minutes after my bug report email...

=)juha

That's what I have been hearing too. Way to go, SmartphoneWare!

I like the "active idle" that comes with 6680 and newer S60 phones. I still would like to see my unread emails and notes. At least in N70 I can only see my calendar appoiments (and not so many of them I'd like and there's free space).

I mean like this way: Unread messages: SMS: 2, MMS: 1, Email: 42.

If user has several email accounts configured, then it should be able to show number of unread emails in both of or one of them based on user choice.

Tommi, maybe you can forward this idea to your S60 guys and find out what they think. And if you need a visual example, MS SmartPhone has quite a decent today view done this way. ;-)

Thanks for your suggestion, Tero! I just chatted with some guys who know more about Nokia's active idle. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to tell publicly about Nokia's future plans, i.e. are we going to implement the thing you are suggesting or not...

In general, this made me think. I would love to answer "thanks for you improvement suggestion, we are going to do it!" or "thanks, but we are not going to do it because..."

But the lawyers would crucify me.

Note to self: must think how to deal with this kind improvement ideas in the future.

In the meanwhile, keep sending us improvement suggestions. We are listening :-)

The whole concept of "Active Idle" is great as it gives information about today's duties and unread messages and so on...

However PocketPC's have had today screen for ages and it has one great advantage over Active Idle. It's customisable!! I don't have a phone with Active Idle yet but as far I know there is no way to for example open calendar entry in Papyrus or show message count of ProfiMail.

If Active Idle was "open", every 3rd party developer could make their own panel for it. Just like WindowsMobiles...

Don't get me wrong!! Series 60 has so much to offer that WM phones don't but the Active Idle is not for power users that use many 3rd party apps.

I hope that BestDesk or some other Today-screen replacement offers some kind of open platform for other developers to use. It would be great to see 3rd party plugins for calendar, email, rss, weather and so on...

=)juha

Tommi, I know how these things work. That's why I didn't ask anything else but to get my idea forwarded to the right people. ;)

Juha: already now there's some customization possible in the "today view" of S60, at least you can change the links to applications (1-5). But I agree, Pocket PC still has a lot better "today view".

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