Ok, so what software do we really need for the phone ?

[Guest MBoden]

we might as well find out what we need/want

I'm currently working on a Mame port and a Notepad

I've considered something to save SMS's to a PC

[Guest crimminsky]

Doom......Quake.......Tombraider.......PLEASE.........Pretty please.........dribble dribble ;)

[Guest Thistle]

Doom......Quake.......Tombraider.......PLEASE.........Pretty please.........dribble dribble

Joins crimminsky in the dribbling session

[Guest Gazza]

We really want to be able to read/view/edit documents. Word, Excel etc

[Guest JeanChrisToulouse]

We need a real TASK MANAGER for OUTLOOK TASKS:

- Ability to read the full tasks

- Add/Edit tasks

- %

etc.

[Guest Ed]

IRC and FTP clients please!

[Guest madu]

personally I think word/excel and decent tasks app is a bit too much for now.. it will soon be availible commercially (i guess). but a NOTEPAD is an amazing thing to have!! i'd be happy enough with a notepad that can open even limited size (as in win) files for basic text editing..

Think 'editing xml's on your spv' - wouldn't that be great?!

Well, keep up the good work!

[Guest benny]

The ability to add attachments to an email would be very useful...

GPRS usage counter is a must-have, ideally "poundware" as opposed to the £13 offering available at the moment.

Any basic games would be a bonus - something like a port of Rick Dangerous or Afterburner would be something to really show off the SPV (although Interstellar flames is a good substitute).

Voice recognition / dialling would be nice, although I don't know if this is add-on software or an O/S patch.

Voice-to-SMS would also be nice, but again I think this would use up too much RAM to be implemented

An app similar to Omniremote on the Palm would be quite cool for sheer "gadget factor", but isn't really an absolute requirement.

ICQ client?

JAVA would be nice too, but I believe someone is already working on this.

Oh...and a fully featured phone might be nice too ;)

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[Guest Emad]

ICQ can be done via the new JabberCE client or via the imode ICQ page.

Voice recognition would be v v hard given the processing power of the phone. Now voice dialling wouldn't be too bad - you could do that with a piece of software, although it should really be in the os.

I'd say notepad and an ebook reader myself.. Although a task manager would be very useful indeed.

[Guest Gorskar]

A free/ very very cheap GPRS counter

Ebook reader would be nice

A memory manager would also be useful... to show what apps are running, and close them down if u like.... at least to be able to close down internet explorer properly, without having to go back a million times.

[Guest youngerpants]

(younger repeats himself)

TELNET!!!!

failing that, java, so I can use a telnet applet

[Guest AsherUK]

Yeah, I agree, a notepad type app would be very useful

[Guest benny]

Telnet would be great...as would an SSH client (assuming GPRS supports this).

Some form of a process / task manager would be good, too.

Also, the ability to use the button on the headphones as a remote shutter release for the camera would be a nice idea - that way you've got a hope in hell of taking a picture without shaking the unit while its grabbing the image data from the camera pod.

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[Guest DJHope]

Good luck on telnet, wouldnt that have to be Privialged Trusted Signed, since itd be using GPRS?

[Guest MBoden]

Hmmm, Doom might be a problem, it needs 6MB RAM for Doom1.wad , i dont have that much available on my phone :-(

[Guest Ed]

Hmmm, Doom might be a problem, it needs 6MB RAM for Doom1.wad , i dont have that much available on my phone :-(

They did it on the 7650. And if they can do quake I'm sure they can do doom.

[Guest Ben]

Loads have asked, but how about the Picture Caller ID? So someones picture will flash up when they call !

Ben.

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

And what was the answer before?

There is such software in the works!

Patience young Jedi...

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[Guest Shire29]

1) Notepad or something similar

2) Proper tasks application (sync with Outlook tasks)

3) e-mail attachment thingy

3) Better media player

4) Word, Excell, Powerpoint viewer (editor too much to ask atm)

5) Quake/Doom any reasonable first person shooter

Above is my opinion, in order of preference, although maybe Quake/Doom would be top except there is far too much dribling going on all ready atm ;)

Cheers, Shire

[Guest DJHope]

Sort it out people easy! The doom wad dosnt use the entire wad for the whole of the game so you only need to load it into memeory in trickles besides that you can down the res of all the graphics and sound, the graphics can be downed to a sensible res for the fone (thats how they got it onto 7650)!

DJ Hope

[Guest MBoden]

I think i got the wad file problem for doom fixed now :wink:

[Guest amo]

Your porting doom for spv???

[Guest MBoden]

Amo, yup, seemed like a fun thing to do , it aint working, but getting there

[Guest amo]

Well good luck, keep us posted on updates. Lookin forward to that....what else are you working on?

[Guest DJHope]

Yeh please! Quake and doom, yummy! ;)