Let me see, the next application that I have for Sprint and Cingular phones is an nifty little application. Doesn't require any software or physical resources on the phone. Basically, you'll know when it's working because the people you're talking to won't have to pull their phone away from their ear, realize that they've been talking for 14 seconds with no one on the other end and then painstakingly decide whether or not I need to call back....because minutes are a high priced commodity....

In short, a cell phone that doesn't drop calls. Not the fewest, NONE. OR that they carrier monitors dropped calls and automatically credits you when it happens.

posted November 8, 2007

There is one app. that would be nice:


Being able to call my phone (from an other phone) and redirect all incoming calls to a number I specify.



I forgot my phone at home today - had to drive 2 hours home from work and back to retrieve it. Would have been nice to remotely redirect it...

posted November 8, 2007

Better voice recognition software. Just bought an iPhone and I wish I could do everything (i.e. check voicemail, place calls, dictating and sending text messages and e-mails, play specific MP3s, play podcasts, or retrieve contact information) without actually having to navigate using my hands. Would be particularly valuable while driving.

posted November 8, 2007

VoIP calls and service switching to a my Wi-Fi network when I get to the office or home automatically. All without an additional fee!

posted November 9, 2007

Tracking.

Say you have friends / colleagues / etc that want to share their location & current activity with you, they activate tracking, it sends signals every other minute to a server, that updates your phone with a map, small icons on it you can click to bring focus see what activity they are doing so you can join in.

- you could publish you location & activity to a list of people
- people (whitelist) can publish their "events", e.g. your chief pings you with "10:30am, weekly meeting, BLDG B this time (located on map)"
- service providers (SP whitelist you suscribe to) can do the same, e.g. farmer's market special mulberry fair, saturday 10am 4pm or lecture on firewall intrusions and how to prevent them, room 212, fri xx/xx/xx 6pm 7pm
- last but not least SOS functionality (in case of emergency)

damien

posted November 9, 2007

This is more of an accessory than an application.

Many young professionals opt to not have a hardline phone number in their homes these days, instead relying wholly on their cell phone. A device that'd prove rather popular would be a "cell phone station" where you plug in the cell phone and all regular phones connected to the station respond to the cell phone. When it rings, they ring. When they're picked up, dialed on, hung up, the cell phone responds. Would provide folks who are exclusive to cell phones a fine way to enjoy them in their home in a fashion that is more familiar. ...I really should patent this if it doesn't exist already.

As for applications I'd like on my mobile? GPS, for one, paired with Google Earth or Mapquest or whichever makes the highest bid to get in bed with my service provider.

posted November 15, 2007

I'd like to see some open source integration with programs like thunderbird and lightning.

I would also like to see a universal contact storage so it doesn't matter which phone you have, they all sink to it.

posted November 15, 2007

A telnet terminal program.

@ Philip: You should have bought a Tytn 2: no problem with it.
@ Mark&Evan: You should have bought... oh... same as above.

Just pestering you guys ;-)

posted November 16, 2007

I want a cell phone that makes calls. I really could care less about all the ancillary applications -- I don't/wouldn't bother using them or they cost way too much in the USA. Small sharp tools -- do one thing; do it well.

posted November 16, 2007

A thing I would really appreciate is the possibility to remove useless applications from my mobile phone. It would allow me to have immediate access to the functions I really needs, instead of having to step through menus full of nonsens.

posted November 17, 2007

I'd like a cell phone that lets me make phone calls as well as an old-style land line telephone:
- Buttons that are easy to find and push
- Good sound quality from the speaker (I'm not always going, "What? What?")
- Good pickup in the microphone (the person on the other end isn't always going "What? What?")
- As has been mentioned, calls that don't drop. Especially when I'm sitting quietly in one position where I've had 3-5 bars and for no apparent reason it drops to zero.
- Audible indications when a call is genuinely connecting, when the phone decides to quit trying, and when a call drops. I'm always peering at my silent cell phone trying to figure out if it's actually doing something or just decided, as usual, to silently fail.

This is no doubt heresy coming from someone who works on an operating system for smart phones. :-) But frankly, I don't care a flying flip if I can watch Heroes reruns if I can't tell my wife I'm stuck in traffic.

posted November 17, 2007

I want my mobile phone to:

1. Receive and make calls. Every time. Everywhere.
2. Not lose or drop a call. Ever.
3. Have quality of conversation sufficient to be indistinguishable from a land line.
4. Have the service fees compete with land line offerings - e.g. $54.95 per month, unlimited local and long distance in the Continental US NoMatterWhenYouWantToTalk.

Everything else is superfluous.

Oh - and a honkin' big directory that syncs with Outlook, GoldMine, etc. via a standard USB interface. How big? 10,000 would be good.

--Dan

posted November 19, 2007

Now that I'm spending all my free time exploring backroads on my motorcycle, I'd love my phone to have a great GPS + navigation system.

posted November 20, 2007

How about a virtual assistant? A rule-based framework that can be trained to pick up calls and reply in some interactive way, for example to offer re-scheduling a call, making sure that schedules neither overlap with each other nor with important calendar events, or to speak out selected messages based on (for example) which number is calling.

posted November 20, 2007