Ok, let's give you some ideas:

1) A feature similar to Google Latitude: integrated with Online/Offline status (a user can set if I want to be visible from his contacts, choosing which yes or not, a switch for each one). When I user set his status to Online, the device get the position using GPS/AGPS ecc... and update it on $ONLINESERVICE.

Then, a cool widget, integrated with Nokia Maps (well... Nokia bought a maps company some months ago... are you going to use it or not?! ) so when I go online I can see on the map where my friends are.

Clicking on a contact on the map I can sen a IM, start a chat, a voip call, send a link, a file, start a......... well you understand

Of course this require an online service. I already talked to Quim about this at the Maemo Summit 2008, don't know if he can remember the conversation, anyway it doesn't matter... I'm here to explain again these concepts, again and again until I cannot see them implemented in the next device

2) Discover friends: using gps+internet connection, discovering friends or completely unknown people who put themselves in "dicovery mode": I can see the user "John Doe" on the map, see what is sharing (a prevew of photos, videos, music, ecc...) and ask him/her to meet and share: via wifi, via bluetooth or whatever you want.

3) Collaborative maps: let's suppose we're some friends, we want to map &SOMETHING around the city. We go for a walk, when we find an istance of $SOMETHING around the city, we press a button and the application (using GPS position and sending data to the server) makes the new spot available on the other users map.

At the end they can save this map and continue later or share with other users.

Useful to map wifi access points, bus stops, kebab points, ecc... and all you want to map.

Again: you can integrate this with Google Maps or use your own, no matter.

One important thing: please provide API for ALL of these services! Integration is the best thing we can have. Don't close everything!


These are three ideas... I could have many others, but I'd like to read some feedback before continuing.

I hope you find these interesting, if not, thanks anyway for giving me the possibility to explain them