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Nokia Beta Labs
My Mobile Site widgets review and plans
Tue, 2008-03-11 15:32Guest blogger: Marton Szomolanyi from My Mobile Site Widgets team
Sorry for the late post. I'm a typical developer who Tommi wrote about. I need to train/educate myself to treat public discussion with higher priority.
So what were the conclusions of My Mobile Site widgets trial?
- It seems that you like the concept of lightweight PC-Phone applications and this is a great platform to experiment with it.
- User feedbacks are very versatile. For example most of the feedbacks said that Signal widget is almost useless. But then someone wrote that he lives in the country side, and signal quality is a big problem there. So Signal widget is very useful for him.
- SMS widget was rated as most useful by far. The attention around the Text messenger Vista gadget proves this also.
- Tiny features around messaging like search capability was highly valued.
- Several feedbacks requested enhancements in UI, usability and more customization opportunities. We will try to do our best to correct them.
What's next?
- The 1.1 release is under development. Basically we keep the 1.0 architecture with a little bit better protocol (JSON-RPC).
- We correct and enhance the existing widgets and add some more features like Calendar and MMS sending. To show what the potential is in the remote access through Mobile Web Server we will show information about other mymobilesite.net users also.
I raised the question about the ultimate desktop widget platform, but it seems that this is a hard issue currently. Honestly I don't now the solution yet, but I will write down some thoughts in the Forum Nokia wiki. (Soon, I promise!)
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Welcome
A widget that links to chat clients and conveys phone status i.e . busy is one that would be a huge hit for Nokia in Asia.
Joel,
Before you expect too much: Currently we implement just sending images from the phone via MMS. Will be available in the picture widget.
Hey Guys,
it would be nice if u make small reviews or lookups for every project u listed here.So the User's have a overview what's going on and what theya can expect.Maybe then u guys got some nice ideas from the users out there and can use this information for implement it for example.Just a Tip :D
Heiko
Thanks for the update, I'm sure a lot of the people here love to know what's going on in the background. :)
p.s.
need linux support!! :D lol :D
A MMS Widget would be nice! I would find it usefull... and maybe a Calender Widget also!
I'll keep using you software! Great work!
I made this suggestion as a feature/feedback submission for Nokia PC Phone but it could work equally well as a widget.
It is the ability to send text/notes or URLs to the phone and for them to be saved as a bookmark, note or whatever else you can think of.
A plain text box where the user can enter a text note, or url, and a radio button to select what the user wishes to do with the text, eg Send to Notes; Send to Bookmarks.
The reason for this request is that often I would like to visit a URL away from the computer on the phone but the URL is either too long or tedious to find via search engine. :)