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There are a lot of applications that I see as important from my Treo days (yeah, I know it was just 3.5 weeks ago), but I think that Palm approve test and approval process should be in tiered steps:
1) Test and flood with the homebrew applications that forums show people were back-dooring or hacking their phones to get. Especially those that gave functionality that customers think should have come with the phone. Quick examples would be:
* Proper bluetooth protocol that would allow you to connect to devices other than headset and allow you to send a receive files.
* Ability to change alerts, ring tones, etc.
* Full copy and paste ability
*TextPlus (a text completer app ++)
* Voice Dialer
* Video recorder
* Voice recorder
2)After that, we get to everyone's I will be patient, but what I really want for Xmas is:
The big selling and long standing apps from Palm OS and Windows mobile:
Doc to Go (I'm ok with what's available, but need the full function)
SplashID (I'm please with what's available, but like the full function)
MyBible
audible.com
A Book reader
Splash Shopper
Pocket Quicken
Tether ability. Convince Sprint to charge $10-$15 per month for it, that's what VZW does and they make mint.
3) Those promising apps that developers are dieing to lay on you. You may want to let random customers select their top 5-10.
*visual voice mail
* writer's notebook (the promising app for writers that counted pages and kept track of characters)
** Look at the various Pre forums apps wish list and approve based on the needs or wishes listed by current Pre customers.
4)Then look at what's hot for the business serious oriented apple user. That's right, having set-up your base, you can now look at what keeps people with the competition:
*What song am I listening to
*Name that bird or plant
* taxi in a strange place
* Metro link (app that tells you public transit schedule in various towns. It should work like AccuWeather so that you can set it for whatever city you're in).
Having said all that. I love my Pre. SplashID and Classic makes it possible for me to wait. Without them, I couldn't have made the move. Thanks-Palm, thanks-Classic( motionApps)and thanks DataViz.
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