Since I got my Nokia N95 8GB back in December 2007, I have been using the Nokia PC Phone service that gives you a possibility to use your mobile phone with your Web Browser.
You can call, text and manage contacts from your phone. I personally have been using it to manage my contacts and occasional texts.
While reading my texts I have been really annoyed by the way text messages were displayed due to a bug so I decided to report it with a fix. So when January came the development team has nominated me as the contributor of the month. Thanks guys, and also thanks for the Prize: Nokia USB Charger CA-100. I have been meaning to get one of them to stop caring an AC Charger.
Here is my wish list for the Nokia PC Phone service before the go live:
Count of Messages, Calls, Contacts: Display total count of records as per display. This can be a very easily displayed on the footer. This will create a better user experience, as it informs the user of their interaction and lack of interactions in some case. Think about the time when you select contacts to send text to, it would be good to know how many contacts you has selected. This would give and idea of how much its going to cost you (if you do not have pre-paid or free text service).
Show all/Clear search button for Contacts: At the moment when you search for someone the contact list filters out the records, but when you clear the search field it takes a bit longer for rest of the entries to load up. Either speed up the response or have a manual button to trigger action to load all entries faster.
Option to permanently turn off Highlight recognised phone numbers on web pages: Nokia PC Phone come with Highlight recognised phone numbers enabled by default. When you turn off the option it does not maintain at the moment. I dont think this option should be forced on those who do not want, enable it by default but let peole turn it off. The workaround that I have found is to change the Firefox Config via about:config and changing the value for: extensions.pcphone.recognize-phone-numbers to false.
Hopefully the development team would agree (or they may disagree) that these features would increase the user experience and further enhance their product. I’ll update this entry as I find more features that I think would be helpful for everyone.
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