What Matters Most

From Internet Tablet Talk

This page attempts to gather ideas on what kind of apps or information really matters most to Internet Tablet enthusiasts. The goal of this page is to give ideas to developers on what kinds of apps to make, based on the ideas and suggestions from the main users of Nokia Internet Tablets.

Please limit suggestions to a few words each on this page. You are welcome to expound on an idea to another wiki page if needed. It would be great if other enthusiasts suggesting the same idea, to start detailing features and expanding the idea to maybe a full application blueprint for developers.

Below are some user categories to start things off. Feel free to add new categories if needed.

To help with inspiration, here's a historical list of "killer apps" for handheld electronics:

• radio
• clock
• calculator
• camera
• music
• games
• phone
• PIM
• text messaging
• email
• picture viewing
• GPS
• web
• movie viewing
• eBook
• PDF reading

Contents 1 Categories 2 In general 3 As a Developer 4 As a Professional 5 As a Student 6 At Home 7 As a Blogger 8 On the Go 9 As A Geek 10 As A Medical Professional 11 Dealbreakers (what makes me not buy one)

Categories

In general

• Usability
  • Full-screen
  • Finger-friendly
  • Consistent
  • Optimal use of screen estate
  • Configurable, with sensible default settings
• A superb internet browser - fast, fully featured
• Maintenance / Support
  • Get the device in the hands of the developers quickly
  • Open source
  • Reliable one-click install / upgrade
  • Good package categorization, and a flexible package manager
  • Easy way to rate, comment, seach and report bugs/request of OS and apps
  • Central Master List of Repositories
  • Documentation
  • Screenshots
• Integration
  • synchronization via network
  • integration between applications
  • hardware integration (keyboard, mouse, gamepad, wiimote, headsets, devices, etc.)

As a Developer

• Development environment for the >90% of market who don't use Linux desktop
• ... and also for those who do and who contribute most of the non-nokia software the IT uses.
• Better support for Python, Java
• SDK including UI widgets well-suited for handheld devices
• SDK and design rules for tablet-specific webapps (including on-tablet server for offline webapps)

As a Professional

• Email
• Calendar
• Document viewer (.pdf, .doc, .xls, etc)
• Address Book
• To Do
• Spreadsheet
• Word Processor
• Presentation Viewer
• Navigation
• Instant Messaging
• Travel Tools
• Remote Desktop Connection (VNC/RDesktop)
• Video Conferencing
• Finance Application (like Winmobile "Cash Organizer")
• Simple flat-file database with list and card views (like Psion "Data") - useful to collect all sorts of data
• easy to use voice recorder

As a Student

• Email
• Calendar
• To Do
• Instant Messaging
• Games
• Word Processor
• Calculator (Scientific/Graphing)
• Single-pane outliner
• Flashcard trainer (Language etc)

At Home

• Email
• TV Guide
• Instant Messaging
• Recipe Database
• Word Processor
• Calendar
• To Do
• Text-to-Speech
• Speech-to-Text
• Photo album
• VOIP phone

As a Blogger

• Blog Client
• Basic Image Editor (crop, resize)
• Video Recorder
• Image Uploader (flickr, smugmug, zoomr, etc...)
• Video Uploader (youtube, google video, etc...)
• Graphical (S)FTP Client

On the Go

• Email
• Video Player
• Music Player
• Image Viewer
• Jaiku/Twitter Client
• Weather Forecast
• Weather Status
• Alarm
• Radio
• Sports Scores
• News Feeds
• Navigation
• Wifi Location (Skyhook style GPS)
• Instant Messaging
• eBook Reader
• Games
• Word Processor
• Podcast/Videocast Fetcher
• Video Conferencing
• Audio Book Player
• Crossword Puzzle App that Supports AcrossLite (.puz) Format
• Last.fm client
• Pandora compatibility
• P2P TV (Sopcast, TVU, TVAnts etc...)
• Media (audio, video, photo) Editor
• Location based applications
• Global SOCKS proxy support for access on unsecure connections (e.g. SSH tunneling)

As A Geek

• Root Command line access
• Ssh client
• vpnc
• CLI text editors
• Wardriving tools (kismet) (ARP packet injection)
• Wiimote integration for games using bluetooth
• Video Conferencing
• Graphical/CLI FTP Client
• VNC/RDP/NX
• Must play nice with other cutting edge devices
• Robust File Manager/Mount Tool
• Screen Rotation
• Gconf Editor
• Theme, toolbar, and layout managment
• Capable web browser (all the bells and whistles, if and when I need them there)

As A Medical Professional

• Drug reference (like ePocrates for PPC & Palm)
• Isilo

Dealbreakers (what makes me not buy one)

• no PIM
• Poor out-of-box software
• Poorly organized 3rd party software
• Almost useless integrated camera
• No hardware 3d acceleration
• Inflexible hardware controls - Poorly suited to games, media, on-the-fly usage
• Poor video performance (need conversion of media files)