11. A video player similar in capabilities to VLC. YouTube is not all that.
We are building such hardware+apk based on Android ;) but we don't plan to release it as apk to install on other Android hardware since it is most likely that it won't be optimized to work fast enough on anything else other than our hardware. More information should be available on our site in the next 1-2 months. Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Sep 30, 1:34 am, Grant Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, although the iPhone is cool, I've become fixated on > Android and its potential. So, I pre-ordered a T-Mobile G1. I am now > suffering from the worst case of delayed gratification I've had in > more than two decades. The last time I felt this way about a gadget, > it was a shortwave radio my parents were going to give me for > Christmas. Then I was able to find it hidden in the closet and play > with it for two months without them knowing. Now all I can do is read > the various community sites, watch the most interesting of the videos, > and speculate about what the new phone will, or can, do. > > So, I've got a lot of wishes for Android. I'm not expecting this stuff > out of the box on the T-Mobile G1, but I'd love to have it from the > community later. I hope posting it here is a way to stimulate > developers. For the record, I'm a former IT director, now a dictionary > editor and radio host, with a high level of technical aptitude but > with few of the skills required to code apps for the phone. So there's > a technical bent to my requests, which cover all of my interests. > > I believe some of these, such as tethering, present challenges that > may not be overcome on the T-Mobile G1 hardware. > > I would hope those apps that connect Android to a computer will be > available for Mac and PC, at least, and preferably for the Linuxes and > Unixes, too. > > 1. A timed or automatic application to sync iTunes playlists between > Android-compatible ones (so that they mirror each other) and to make > sure the files that are in those playlists are on both the phone and > the computer. Probably easiest done by mounting the phone via USB, > and, fortunately, the iTunes playlists are parseable. This allows > files purchased from Amazon to be easily moved to the computer and > iTunes, and allows iTunes to be the central place, if one wishes, to > manage music. The best of all possible worlds would be to have a group > of iTunes playlists (perhaps under a single nested folder?) that can > be identified as "always sync these with the Android phone," so that > the updating of the desktop and phone libraries happens with as little > duplication of effort as possible. This app should also work with > podcasts that are downloaded by iTunes. It would be great if it could > recognize what has already been played and what has not and allow the > user to select things like "sync all unplayed" or "sync all downloaded > in the last X days" or "sync 2GB of the most recently downloaded > podcasts." Space management will be an issue and music is usually a > big space hog, so this app should take that into account. > > 2. Google Reader for Android. A must-have! I've seen that there are > other RSS apps (since they're easy to build) but I'd have to manage my > hundreds of subscriptions in more than one place. > > 3. Music player tweaker that allows additional items to be added to > the Android Player Library screen. Mainly, I want a button for genre, > so that podcasts that are copied over are easier to get to. > > 4. A skin or other tweak that allows the desktop to be viewed as a > list rather than as icons. Bonus points if you can get it in a > multicolumn layout so the virtual panning across the desktop shows the > rest of the list. > > 5. I see in the leaked T-Mobile manuals that Google Gears is available > for the browser. I'm not clear if it works with Google Maps and Google > Docs, but I'd love it to. This should be automatic; that is, caching > should be wise enough so that commonly visited content and recently > visited content are available, in one usable fashion or another, when > the phone is not able to connect to the Internet. The reason I say > "automatic" is that with Google Gears for Firefox, I have to manually > select "offline," which, frankly, limits the utility of it on my > laptop: who remembers to check that little green button every time? > This kind of thing would be particularly useful to those of us who > commute underground by subway and those of us who spend many hours on > airplanes. > > 6. A program to sync selected folders, notes, or other things between > a desktop computer and the phone. > > 7. A command line, preferably with some of the basic Linux-type apps > installed, such as a simple text editor, telnet, ssh, some network and > lookup tools, grep, etc. > > 8. Over-the-cloud backup of the non-Google applications and documents > of the phone. For example, if I take a bunch of pictures, I want to be > able to back them up somewhere in the cloud in case I need more space > on the phone, or the phone is lost or stolen. Same for music I might > buy from Amazon. I know you can send pictures in email, but how > tedious that would be to send dozens or hundreds! What I am after is > an automated solution that would allow you to grab all files of a > certain type (or even let you specify all files created directly on > the phone), send them, then delete them from the phone, all in one go. > Above all, I'm looking for some kind of assurance that my files and my > downloaded and/or paid-for apps can be retrieved in the event of > disaster. I see that there is a program that allows you to store files > on an Amazon bucket, but it's not clear to me a) if it is finished or > b) if it is automatable. > > 9. An app to automatically post photos to Flickr when they are taken. > I see a couple of apps that might do this for me (like flickrdroid), > but it's not clear if they do. > > 10. A high-quality dictionary. NOT WordNet or Webster's 1913 or any > one of the StarDict dictionaries. Something modern and well-crafted. > This will likely have to come from a commercial publisher. I realize > that I will be able to look things up online, but I'm not convinced > that's the best user experience for retrieving definitions on a mobile > phone. > > 11. A video player similar in capabilities to VLC. YouTube is not all > that. > > 12. An app that allows updating of Facebook satus, Twitter, Tumblr, > and the other similar services all in one go. There's an app called > "MoodBlast" for the Mac that does this just about perfectly. > > 13. Ability to search all documents on the phone from a single > interface: mail, PDFs, music, calendar, etc. > > 14. A VNC app. I see some work has been done on this, but it's only > the VNC server:http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc/ > > 15. A Bluetooth tethering app. Allow your computer to access the > Internet via your phone's Bluetooth capabilities. > > 16. A USB tethering app. Allow your computer to access the Internet > via your phone's USB port. > > 17. A "tight, clean, and small" skin. Most of the screenshots I see > luxuriate in lots of open space and overly large words and unnecessary > stars and other gewgaws. I'd love to see a text-only, small, clean, > sharp skin that crams as much data onto every screen as possible. > > 18. Bookmark syncing with Firefox. > > 19. Something that allows me to create contact groups and then to > place a conference call to everyone in a group without having to dial > each one of them independently. > > 20. Ability to use Google Calendar to set phone alarms of differing > sound and volume. > > 21. Something that allows me to know when apps downloaded from Android > Market have been updated or that there is a new version available. > > 22. Skype or other voice-chat client. I think T-Mobile might have a > problem with this one, but I include it anyway, in case someone needs > encouragement to be bold enough to try it. > > 23. An Adobe Flash plugin for the browser! This is being worked on, > supposedly: > > http://www.flashdevices.net/2008/09/talking-about-lack-of-adobe-flash... > > 24: A radio app that collects and collates a lot of online streams in > one place for easy access. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
