Notices

She didn't have any context when making the icon. I'll ask her to take another whack at it after seeing the other icons and have her try to fit the style.

Shouldn't this post be submitted to the Marketing slogans thread instead?

Likin' the app. It's too bad data counters are almost necessities to get the most effective data plan for the least amount of $.

Would it be too crowded or useless to put the date/time of when the counter was last reset in the title bar? I mean, obviously if you work in resets and accumulated figures for specific timeframe which could be toggled it may not be necessary. And yes, most of us will keep the device "always-on". Maybe this falls back on the reset option request. Anyways, just a thought, not necessarily essential.

Would avg speed/throughput be an option or even be able to calculate accurately? I suppose you'd have to utilize some form of detection when a specific value is exceeded to trigger the inclusion of the transfer to be used in the average calculation (to avoid it averaging background ping-like/refresh processes or single IMs into the figure), or break it down maybe by application type, or include all but with the understanding it isn't a true representation of actual throughput at any given time. (but maybe at least subtracting the idle/standby times when the screen blanks or similar)

Again, just throwing wood on the fire to see how high it gets.

just thinking design issues now that the functional stuff is done.

GPRS Turnstile?
Data Meter?

Icons could be a meter hooked to the n900, 0s and 1s going past a turnstile...

Just throwing out ideas...

Added Reset Date and Average Speed. Would it be possible to have the average speed swap between upload and download?

this looks good - but isn't the name a bit misleading?
what about personal data monitor or personal bandwidth monitor, to get away from a specific protocol (as it counts both gprs and 3g).

another thing that would be nice:
set a max limit - if you have a dataplan with fixed mb, the dashboard could "count down" what you have left - or give a warning (change color) when nearing the max limit?

Okay, before I make any more changes to the visual, I think we should make some decisions on what the widget will include. Then I can create appropriate space etc.

so for sure we need:
1. Uploaded / Downloaded (do we want Sent/Received instead?)
2. Do we want Reset Date?
3. Do we want/need Average Speed?
4. I like the countdown Idea! I think we can do a green/yellow/red notifier, with a countdown that can be configured in the options.

I'm not sure who "invented" this app/who is developing, but lets hear from them, then I'll continue to push the design.

Heh, made me think pulse, blood pressure, temperature (my emphasis)

Toggling by clicking to get the countdown detail sounds good to me. Of course, it's merely making us more lazy by dodging the simple gradeschool math.

Average speed doesn't really make sense in my opinion.

Bandwidth alerts are most likely on the way eventually. I have a sound engineer working on creating alert sounds that will fit the Maemo 5 sound motif. All depends on when fiferboy has time to do the work.

We decided that "Uploaded/Downloaded" was more friendly to newbies than "Received/Transmitted".

No, reset date should not be on the widget.

Yes, I think the name should change since it's really 3G as well.

Sorry, but this looks like clip art circa 1998. I hate saying this when someone was asked to make it, but... It's not to great.

Tim

Nokia Sans. But, that will sort itself out when the default is used in the code.

Tim