What are the top-3 things in your Nokia that you want to get done from your PC?
Update: picture updated from “girl with a Mac” to “guy with a PC”. The earlier pic was indefensibly misleading, as PC Phone doesn’t support Mac. My fault. Sorry for confusion. - Tommi.
As Nokia PC Phone is currently the hottest (= most-downloaded) application under Beta Labs, I wanted to highlight this comment from the development team:
Thank you for all your input.
We have received quite a lot of personal feedback to our email address and we have tried to reply to all of you who have sent some comments, incident reports or proposals.
What we would like to hear from you is the following :
Now that you have experienced using your Nokia from your PC, and you understand what can be done with this kind of approach - what are the top 3 things in your Nokia that you want to get done from your PC?
Thanks for your encouraging feedback !
Best wishes to you all for 2008!
- The Nokia PC Phone Team -
You can share your thoughts either publicly by commenting to this blog, or privately through the feedback form.
Note: if you want to follow the debate, you can subscribe to all PC Phone related blog comments from http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/comments/feed?tag=pc-phone (learn to use RSS). The same URL structure works for all other applications too.
Would’ve loved to have used this but on a Mac - even the girl in the pic is on a Mac - please develop cool apps for the Mac so I can get the full use out of my Nokia n95-2
Comment by DK — January 4, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Would like to receive incoming sms’s on the pc screen when the phone is connected to the pc - basically use it like a im client.
Also, the pc suite should be able to read only the new messages on the phone and copy them over - right now every time it has to read all the messages on the phone.
I would like to be able to use the phone as a webcam.
What else… the best feature would be to sync it with Google Calendar. Right now it only syncs with Outlook.
Comment by KO — January 4, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
I’d like it to sync with Thunderbird, Sunbird & Firefox so I can use my contacts, calendar, mail and bookmarks where ever I am.
I’d also like to be able to view photos in my web browser without having to upload them from my phone first.
Viewing messages as threads a la Conversations would be nice too.
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Comment by sboy2010 — January 4, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Synching with thunderbird ain´t a problem at all - no matter which platform (linux/windows/mac) you are using! To sync Sunbird seems impossible until now.
You can find a tutorial on my website, that is also linked within the official (german) Thunderbird-documentation. Translation is available on the top right, but if you have any specific questions and/or need help, please leave a post within the forums!
Back to Topic: What i would like to see is support for Linux! I do not see why it is neccessary to install a Windows component for a Firefox extension (But that may just be due to my limited knowledge on creating Firefox-Extensions
)! Synching bookmarks with Firefox (platform-independant!) would be GREAT and my main-request!
Comment by symbian60.mobi — January 4, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
1. I’d like to use my phone either as a webcam or microphone. I imagine this can be done by extending the video/sound recorder to make it able to transfer data to the PC in real time.
2. This may be a bit off-topic but, if possible, I’d like to have my PC internet connection on my phone. I mean have the phone connected to the PC and thus be able to access the PC Internet connection through the phone.
3. An emulator of the phone interface on the computer’s screen. Basically a sort of TV-out, but the image is displayed on the PC, and you can use the PC to interact with it (i.e. write text more quickly, manage files easier, test new applications etc). Like the Carbide.C++ emulator, but interactive.
Comment by Bogdan Galiceanu — January 4, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
First of all I’d like to say that Nokia Beta Labs is the best initiative made by any mobile manufacturer ever! Makes us the users understand that Nokia will provide us with useful applications which makes our investment even more valuable than we thought in the first place! And this creates customer binding, as you know of course. Keep it up!
Now down to business - What Nokia-functions do I want to do with my PC.. Here it is:
1. Remote phonecamera control. Web camera functions is one thing, I think this applications exists already, but it would be even more exciting to have the possibility to control the phonecamera completely from a distance. And “distance” does not only mean Bluetooth-distance, I want to remote control my N95-camera through internet, by 3G, EDGE, GPRS and WLAN! This way I can put my phone in a remote location and take pictures and movies from a PC interface. The web server application does some of this already, but I would like to have complete camera control including adjusting all settings, programming time lapse photography, using both cameras on the phone, sound transfer etc. (And it should be possible to store current GPS location data together with the picture taken - but that’s an other matter.)
2. The PC Phone should be developed further. It is a very nice business application which enables Nokia mobile phones to compete even better with fixed line phones and IP softphones. Look at the functionality og fixed line PABX phones and IP softphones - and implement the best features from them.
3. USB charging. The N95 doesn’t charge through the DKE-2 cable. I don’t know why this isn’t implemented. Everyone else has it, but I guess it’s because of some limitation in the phone. One needs a separate USB-charger to power up the phone from the PC, this really should not be neessary.
Comment by MagnusW — January 4, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
I would like to be able to customize my phone’s GUI through the PC. I mean be able to completely control the interface of the phone through an AJAX-style GUI on the PC.
Or alternately, a more stripped-down version of the above (and probably much easier to implement) - control the various phone settings (all of them) from the PC, since maneauvering the menus is easier on the PC.
Also, how about a quick-app to control the phone’s wallpaper? (something like picassa or flikr’s auto-wallpaper)
Comment by Ran — January 4, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
I agree with DK and other comments that we really need more mac compatability…nokia and mac were made for each other…come on guys, employ some mac developers and you would see a huge surge in innovation, general creativity and diversity of using all the Nokia apps!
Pleeeeeeaaase?!!!!
Comment by sooper8 — January 4, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
More customisability (not a word, I know
ie. Active Standby plugins, More menu options available (designing my menus from a PC application would be sweet, and the ability to add web bookmarks, flash files etc as a menu item), Flash files as desktop wallpaper.
Comment by Steve — January 4, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
The ability to walk down a street and click on logos, trademarks, keywords, slogans, RFID, billboards, 1D 2D, QR, DM codes, to find information, direction, location, cheapest price, coupons, etc. I want to be able to say it an have instant information sent to my mobile. I do now what spam on my mobile. Permission based response is the only way for consumers to get what they want.
ONE READER for all. I heard Nokia already knows the NeoReader and Neomedia Technologies. Let’s get the ball rolling.
http://www.neoreader.com
Comment by Swampthing — January 4, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
I’ve already posted this to one of the PC Phone threads, and you can refer to that for more details, but I wanted to reiterate my thoughts here…
What I would like to see most is an advanced SMS management and archiving application. What I mean is the ability to download SMS messages from one or several phones, consolidate the SMS’ into one archive or arrange them into several archives, and then be able to sync the contents of one or more archives back to the phone(s).
Thanks for listening and keep up the great work!
Comment by Gerald — January 4, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
Mac version!
Comment by Fernando — January 4, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
Build PC phone in Adobe’s AIR or Microsoft’s Silverlight. Use the Mobile Web Server and build me a beautiful UI where I can manage my calender, my media and contacts.
See all these people here begging for Mac versions or Linux versions? Build on top of a RIA platform, write once, run everywhere.
Comment by Stefan Constantinescu — January 4, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
Nice software but would like to see them available also on Mac OS X, Linux and Maemo platforms.
Comment by Karri Huhtanen — January 5, 2008 @ 12:57 am
Mac version
Comment by Jay — January 5, 2008 @ 2:35 am
reader *.djvu for Symbian OS 9.1 wanted!!!
Comment by vvp) — January 5, 2008 @ 5:59 am
I bluetoothed many contacts from N73 to N95
These “cards” are in the SMS-inbox
These are not visible in the PC-phone inbox
Please make these visible and let me save them as contacts.
Comment by Kishore Balakrishnan — January 5, 2008 @ 6:03 am
Synchronizing Outlook via WLAN would be great. If I am roaming through various company buildings, Bluetooth is not of much help. And most companies do not (yet) permit direct synchronization with Exchange Servers.
Comment by Tombat — January 5, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
- I want PIM tools that can allow me to view, manage and sync the calendar and notes to PC Phone webpage, something like Palm Desktop except built for PC Phone webpage. This would be great for people like me who don’t have Outlook or Lotus Notes or any other full blown commercial PIM required for PC Suite.
- I want to access the phone’s bookmarks and RSS feeds so I can view them clearly when I have access to a PC with a nice monitor. I also want to be able to bookmark pages while using the PC Phone to my phone instantly.
- I would like an overview page, something like a portal paneled type iGoogle layout or Sharepoint mainpage where I can see all my phone content such as contacts, phone logs, SMS/emails, coming calendar appointments, recent bookmarks etc. in one page.
Support for other platforms like Linux and Mac and for browsers like Opera, Safari would be good.
Comment by Roy — January 5, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
Linux support.
I think that you should write the program in a language that could run directly in Windows, Linux or Macs, such as Mono.
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Comment by Nighto — January 6, 2008 @ 4:40 am
easy wlan file sharing. symsmb by telexy does this but it’s a real pain to use
Comment by folkso — January 6, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
I would like to be able to pick several sms messages and print them all to same paper.
Comment by Travix — January 8, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
As sboy2010 says in comment number 3, I would like a way to synchronise my Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird events and tasks with the Calendar app in the mobile.
Would be really nice having PC Phone working on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Also nice would be having the phone connected to Internet through the Bluetooth connection and a PC with Bluetooth and Internet access.
Comment by kinglibrary — January 8, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
One function i’d like is to be able to print pdf’s and other documents direct to wireless/bluetooth printers.(well if you can, i can’t find it!)
ability to mirror whats on the phones screen on to a pc in the pc-phone app.
Comment by Solitaire — January 9, 2008 @ 4:16 am
I would like Nokia to be able to sync calendar with the standard icalendar files (.ics) that can be generated by most of the calendar tools (instead of limiting the synchronisation to outlook and lotus notes).
Comment by yakakliker — January 10, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Icon in firefox is too big and makes the bar where it fits too tall, should be resized in my opinion
from phone would be usefull seeing pc files
Comment by MAtteo — January 13, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
mac version
and full support of notes and sms from Mac
Comment by euugene — January 14, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
suport for even more phones. not only s60V3 but also V2.
also check out this fabulous app www.mobiledit.com/me_overview.asp get some ideas from them..and improve them
Comment by Popy — January 15, 2008 @ 12:18 am
Synchronize my Mails with Outlook. On Windows Mobile this is absolutely standard, and now i’m missing that on my N95 8GB. It is the best phone i ever had, but this little thing with the mail could it do perfectly. Thanks a lot
Comment by Massimo — January 18, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Will it be developed for the E65, looks very useful.
Comment by Rob — January 19, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
Hmmm
1. Send SMS from Outlook
2. Remove/Merge duplicate entries in Phone’s Contacts/Address book. This is very, very, very annoying and tedious to do manually.
3. Take screen shots - handy when testing.
Comment by Ash — January 21, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
This is very good news from Nokia.
Look like it’s working pretty good for a Beta..
One major improvement would be the ability to “crab” Firstname,Lastname information also when using the “Add to contacts” option in Nokia Pc Phone” ,now only number is imported.
For example if data existed in a table you could select multiple fields (as it usually does) and select “Add to contacts”. Then new entry would have Name details filled.
Thanks.
Comment by Niklas — January 23, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
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Comment by Jessica — January 28, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
I’ve just stumbled across this site whilst struggling to sync my N73 with Thunderbird/Lightning. Nuf said!
Comment by richard — February 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
I already spent hours by searching the solution how to synchronize Thunderbird (contacts and calendar). SyncML is solution, but since I don´t want to use on-line synchronization via any SyncML server (as many other users), there is no way how to do it. Simply I will rather change my phone to the one which is possible to manage by MyPhoneExplorer from FJ Software (I don´t want to write your competitors trademark - but you can easily find which trademark it is searching this software on the web).
Simply - adding synchronization compatibility with Thunderbird/Sunbird (Lightning) would be the only thing I (and many other users) need (contacts and calendar would be enough). Then I am fully satisfied with my Nokia.
BTW - Calling and sending SMS via browser is not so handy (at least for me) - I am reacting on the presentation of Nokia PC phone. When I am at computer (=browser) I can use certainly other (cheaper) call service via IP phone, than my GSM account on my phone. I thing this pays for most of the world except Scandinavia, where fares for GSM services are extremely low. The same pays for SMS and my account at T-Mobile - I can send text messages from my T-Mobile account that faces for the SMS receiver as my mobile phone and I do it for free (not so from my GSM account directly via phone).
Thanks and good luck.
Comment by Petr — February 13, 2008 @ 2:27 am
Sorry for little supplement to my comment - MS Outlook is not an application “to be used by human person” by my meaning and anything will hardly force me to buy Lotus Notes (then is better to buy different phone which I can sync with Thunderbird/Sunbird). As for contacts - nothing is easier and more effective than to manage contacts in the address book like Thunderbird has and than use high quality synchronization software to your account at any Internet server and your mobile phone. That is for the explanation why and what I would expect from the new PC application for Nokia phones.
Thanks and good luck again.
Comment by Petr — February 13, 2008 @ 2:45 am
To interact directly with my PC/MAC over my mobile phones internet connection, so i can control my pc, remote screen view it.. download files too and from it aswell.
I’m aware certain servers can do just the filesharing thing, but thats not what i mean, i want to directly control my pc like they can on blackberry’s and on windows mobile phones.
Comment by Vincent Lynch — February 14, 2008 @ 1:59 am
Hi,
I am using Nokia N81 8GB handset want to sync my tasks from
Sunbird into my mobile. Please let me know any application or
procedure to do the SYNC. I know we can do with Microsoft Outlook but i am interested in Sunbird.
Thanks for your time
Regards
Venkat
Comment by Venkat — February 18, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Hi.
I would like to be able to synchronize my telephone data with Thunderbird/Sunbird.
I do not own Outlook, and Outlook Express does not support calendars.
Oh, and since we got to ask 3 things, Linux support would also be nice.
Thanks,
Paulo Pinto
Comment by Paulo Pinto — February 26, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Thunderbird/Lightning/Sunbird-syncing is definitely THE thing to add next!
Comment by Sebastian Djupsjöbacka — March 20, 2008 @ 12:01 am
1. Sync with Google Calendar (or any other iCal site) I can do it through GPRS/EDGE but it cost me money. I wish to do it by cable, IR or bluetooth
2. See thumbnais of my phone pictures
3. Edit my contacts. PC Phone can already do that.
Comment by Enrique — March 26, 2008 @ 12:58 am
I would love ‘it’ to ask (when in the stand-by sys tray mode) whether I want to answer phone traditionally, via loudspeaker or via PC Phone.
I put myself behind the contact pic. idea above.
Comment by Ales — March 26, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
Definitely, synchronisation with other software is crucial.
I am forced to keep the buggy Outlook just for my Nokia phone.
My wishlist:
- Synchronisation with Google Calendar and Gmail
- Synchronisation with Sunbird, Thunderbird
- Plugins for Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, Youtube (I know you’re working on this last one)
- Synchronisation with Mozilla Flock
- RSS feed updates
Nokia shouldn’t have created that Lifeblog thing because that restricts us Nokia users to a realm. We want to participate in worldwide social networks, i.e. the most popular ones.
Do keep me in the loop once my wishes come true!!
Comment by titanite — March 28, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
I would like to be able to sync my N73 direct to Palm Desktop, then I could throw away my copy of Outlook.
Comment by John B. — April 14, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
-syncing with thunderbird/thunderbird please!!
-A clear changelog update with each release
-Smaller, more often releases!
-9300i rules!
Thanks!!
Comment by elvy — April 30, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Syncing with thunderbird/lightning is needed. Thanks.
Comment by dane — May 15, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Syncing with lightning/sunbird
Thaks!
Comment by Flycat — May 16, 2008 @ 10:28 am
Would like a phone to list a ‘time of ringing’ with missed call notification - this would give an indication how badly one was needed for this call.
Also would like a filter based on word(s) in arriving SMS messages to change the message tone, for example the message containing the word ‘critical’ I would assotiate with some alerting tone.
Comment by Cyrix — May 21, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Support for Linux is not nice, it’s required.
I just dropped Windows. What a shame, the PC suite doesn’t work on Linux.
Comment by Robin Mulkers — May 26, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
Synchronisation with Sunbird, Thunderbird please
Comment by petr — May 29, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Syncing with Thunderbird.
Linux (+FreeBSD!) support.
Better integration of alerts + messaging.
Comment by pgl — July 13, 2008 @ 2:21 am
-Synchronisation with Sunbird and thunderbird
-remote phone camera
-connect to internet via bluetooth / PC
Comment by dba — July 13, 2008 @ 9:33 am
- Syncing with Thunderbird/Lightning
- Better version for Mac computers
Comment by Ana Silva — July 22, 2008 @ 4:22 am
syncing with sunbird, please!
Comment by diego — August 19, 2008 @ 8:33 am
… also, syncing with google calendar.
Comment by diego — August 19, 2008 @ 8:50 am
Like to use the mobile as a scanner. I mean if I can take a clear picture of A4 sheet using the mobile camera, it can be used as a scanner. If Nokia can do some research into this area and come up with some idea it would be nice. I assume there would be a setting for scanning in the photo options and a cardboard stand or so to place the phone with a pre-experimented measurements it will do.
Comment by Saiju Stephen — August 27, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
1) syncing with Thunderbird and Sunbird/Lightning (and Firefox for bookmarks) (hell, it’s one of the most-used combinations, for sure more than lotus and exchange (Outlook))
2) Linux Support
Comment by Holger — September 5, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
Once again please make syncing with Sunbird/Lightning possible!
PLEASE!!!
Comment by Dave — September 12, 2008 @ 1:48 am