Same remark as for a blingy video player UI: When I'm listening to music, I'm listening, not watching. I don't care about the UI, I just want something that makes it easy to select music, compose playlists and has big buttons for start, pauze and stop. No iPod imitations, nothing made to look like an art nouveau radio; heck, it can look like freaking Windows, for all I care.

Okay, that last one was over the top; I apologize.

There was a HP48SX emulator for the 770. I never could get it to work on the N800.

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/Appl...772b565e05843c

But didn't the "I eat babies^WSD-cards" bug also impact earlier firmware? Personally, I've no experience of it, but I got the impression from maemo-* that Nokia wanted to fix it if possible.

I'm still waiting for an example. Sure, cards got corrupted ever since ITOS2005[*], but never beyond repair.
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[*] After all, that's what usually happens if you yank out a card without giving the system time to properly umount.

Yes, usually. Those unusual times? The card dies. So long as you aren't stupid with the cards and you always give them enough time to unmount, you won't ever have a problem with the firmware eating cards whatsoever.

1. Something akin to ListPro for PPC (http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/lp/listpro.php)
2. Perl
3. TV Guide applications (Loading web pages for this takes some time)
4. Calendar/ToDo/Contacts with sync capability (I believe this is being worked on for the GPE suite)
5. Larger board size for Four Rivers (i.e. tougher play )
6. Auto play in AisleRiot (really hate having to tap every card to put them up when it's obvious that it's a winner)

I have to say, though, that overall I'm very impressed with this machine, even with the level of functionality in the alpha/beta applications.

As a long-time Zaurus user who's anxiously awaiting the arrivial of an n810, I'm really interested in seeing two applications ported to the Nokia platform:

• KDEPIMPI
  This is a calendar/to-do list/contact manager/password manager application with Linux & Windows desktop ports. It hasn't seen much development recently, but it's easy to use, has a tremendous range of features, and syncs easily. It builds with Qtopia or X11/Qt.
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdepimpi/
• Zsafe
  This is a cross-platform password manager (Windows, Linux, embedded-Linux). It's got strong encryption and a well-designed GUI.
  http://z-soft.z-portal.info/zsafe/

While I'd be thrilled and extremely grateful to have either of these apps ported to the Nokia, I understand that there may not be much interest. On the other hand, setting up a packaged development environment with Qt, Qtopia, etc. (within scratchbox, within a VMplayer appliance image, or as native compilation tools on the Nokia), would go a huge way toward helping non-developers port more apps from the large collection that's been running on the Zaurus for years.

Thanks again for your offer!

File management:
1)how about emelfm2 ? 2 swaping panes many buttons

2)open with dialog by default

Media
1)al mp3 players which is build for maemo have 1 problem
all of them cannot open/add dirs to playlist and that`s the only one problem in them for me

2)need upnp browser only browser which could give link to any app i want wget , mplayer or other

Networking
1)for smb networking http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net/
it needs smbclient smbmount
and it woud be nice have something similar for showmount&nfs

It's funny you mention this. I was just thinking about the merits of a Commander-style file manager for the tablets. Does such a thing exist?

Rather than port emelfm2, which seems well-suited for a desktop, it might be better to write a finger-friendly version from scratch. Because of limited screen space (and the fact that it would be written from scratch), initial versions would probably only include the most commonly used features. What functionality would you think was important? I was thinking:

browse
jump-to folder
move
copy
delete
rename
create folder
open
sort (?)
restore (?)
set permission (?)
change owner (?)
search (?)

Options would include:
ask before overwrite
ask before delete

It would be interesting to design an interface for this. For example, a file/folder could be placed in a "trash" folder by sliding it off the side of the screen. The trash folder could be accessed by panning the screen to, for example, the left, thus making the left folder the right folder and the trash folder the left folder. Essentially, there would be a three-folder rotation with only two displayed at any time.

To manage single-folder tasks (such as set permission, change owner), it might make sense to hide the second folder, opening up a wider table view with permission and owner columns.

There would be no scroll bars. For finger-friendliness, the folder view would be similar to the mail folder view in Modest.

OK, I'm done brainstorming for now.

FYI... emefm2 has already been ported. It is soooooo much better than the built in file manager. Get it here