Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

Flip Clock already has that retro angle covered. Both flip clock and red led are covered there.

There is lots of good retro stuff. Perhaps I should turn toward steampunk...

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

I think you should make it read and display the actual current operator name in the place of Nokia (would be even more realistic). But anyway a great app!

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

I can seem to find this in app manager, and a link is mentioned, cant see this in your post, can anyone help?! :)

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

Some suggestions:

Add operator name and time, in the way the old nokia phones (like 3210 did it).
Next step could be also implement the phone book, with the real contacts from n900 in the old interface style :-)

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

ability to use it as a phone would be cool (thru this app)

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

OMG I'm dying!

Reading the description and then scrolling down to see the screenshot was just too funny :)

LMAO nicely done

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

I may add a clock at some point, but I think phone controls and more details is kind of pushing it. Also there are no buttons on the front of the phone to map to for simulating the neanderthal-phone experience. I may consider the phone book as a way of playing with QT Mobility, but I am trying to stay away from that package until it hits the mainstream (whenever that might be--PR1.3?).

Also, other than the bars, everything is built into a jpg image--I am not drawing the text directly. I have not looked into what fonts are available on the N900, though for the numbers in the time it might be easy to get around that.

I have started playing with desktop widgets written in C++/QT for another app, and I have diverted some time to manage my way through the differences in packaging that entails. Besides, if I add any actual functionality to this app, it will be way too useful to get ported to the iPhone...

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

Personally I think this app has loads of potential. I like it so far but it does still seem pointless.
How about:
- Clock in the top right (like the old nokia's ui)
- If you receive a sms it could appear as an envelope which you could click to view.

Re: [Announce] Old School for n900
 

I think it is going to stay pointless. Call it a visual fart app.

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Hey, I just thought it would be great to make "at least a bit" functioning oldschool mobile emulator for Maemo! You know - something like Nokia 5110 (or 3310, or whatever) emulator - being able to make calls, send sms... Too bad my programming skills are just few programs in Pascal and C# (all CLI). Anyway, my vision is something like: don't use fullscreen screen, but make one tiny (remember old phones, right? :) ) at top and bellow it place classical keyboard, like on those old phones was.