johnkzin

I've posted these in other places, but figured this would be a good place.

Some of these are "novelties" for a phone, but now that Android netbooks and tablets are coming out (especially the Entourage eDGe, which looks amazing), they're more important:

0) A full (non-mobile) Browser option. Some of these others are a result of
the Android browser only accessing mobile pages (like the mobile versions
of Google Apps) and not the "full/real" versions of Google Apps. This is
especially important on a netbook or tablet. Extra bonus if this other
"non-mobile" browser has full flash support.

1) Full Gmail (send/reply as one of my other gmail personalities, create/edit
filters, create/edit labels, see full details of the message, see the
original message, edit the quoted message in a reply (to trim it down,
focus on a particular passage, etc.))

2) Full Google Reader (keyboard shortcuts, add/edit tags)

3) Full Google Docs (read/write, all formats, view Gmail attachments)

4) Full IM (more than 1 identity per service, more than 1 service
active at a time, more than one identity at a time active with each
service, more jabber servers that just google talk, more than
one Google Talk account, logging conversations to SD card/storage).
So, basically, all at once, I should be able to do 3 Yahoo accounts, 3
AIM accounts, 2 MSN accounts, 2 Google Talk accounts, and 2
Livejournal (Jabber) accounts.

5) Better VNC viewer support, and better integration with ConnectBot
(not so much Google's fault, but still something that's necessary
for me on a netbook; must be able to do BOTH ssh tunneling through
ConnectBot AND vnc password on the same connection; the VNC
viewer that I know about doesn't seem to be able to do that).

6) Tethering (Wifi +++, BT-DUN ++, BT-PAN +, USB)
phone: act as the server/access point/modem for those
netbook: act as the client for those, in addition to _options_ for
built-in/internal 3G.

7) Bluetooth HID, Bluetooth FTP, Bluetooth BIP.

8) SyncML client for Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, and Notes.
(Funambol only does Contacts)


And, for my pipe-dream (it'll never happen; 0-8 are, IMO, reasonable requests ... this next one is one that I doubt many people would take seriously)):
Android Pro: sort of like a mix of Android and Maemo -- add a "me" account at the command line, with a local terminal, for unix/linux pro's who want to have local unix access ... complete with gnu bin-utils, perl, full python, apt-get, apt-cahce, maybe even a light weight X server (that runs on TOP of the Android graphical environment) for porting other linux tools and applications. This would mainly be for netbooks, as I think most phones wouldn't have the CPU and RAM to really support it (at least, with an X server they wouldn't; they might be able to support just the command line version).