Froyo (2.2) wishlist

[mi_canuck]

Native tethering. If my 3 year old subsidized, locked V3xx could do it, my $529 unsubsidized, unlocked phone should be able to as well. To heck with what the carriers want. Let's get the CAPABILITY in place and then have the fight with the poor put upon carriers over why that capability forces bigger bills. Maybe it would speed the march to pricing by the bit used, not by the capability.

BT handsfree dialing of a locked phone. Ditto what the 3 year old V3xx could do.

PS - sounds like maybe you should stick with the V3XX if you think it's that great

You can install PDAnet without rooting your device. It's not "native", but it took all of 3 minutes to install on my netbook & Nexus One. It's free if you don't need https and only $30 to purchase. And using Bluetooth it can tether wirelessly.

WiFi Tethering - it's native to my cooked Desire ROM - works 100x better than PDANet ever did... in comparison, I would not go back to PDANet unless it was my last resort... it was so flaky... would never keep a consistent connection... i kept having to reconnect... with 'Wireless Tethering' (that's the name of the app/widget)... i've been connected for 3hrs straight so far and not a single hiccup in the connection... SUPER stable... even took a call WHILE connected to data... had a 20min conversation, flawless voice... data kept chugging.... it rocks!

 

[mi_canuck]

4. Built in exchange calendar sync

Already have built in Exchange Calendar sync with MoDaCo's Desire ROM

 

[sourmilk]

Already have built in Exchange Calendar sync with MoDaCo's Desire ROM

Ah yes. I'm waiting till after finals to root. Plain n1 is distraction enough.
Seems like the dev community has done most of the hard work for Google.
Hopefully they listen to users and make the next release a good one.

 

[Roze]

another vote for BT voice dialing. Lack of that one has been a bummer.

Ditto on that! I don't understand why Google didn't include BT voice dialling on the N1. It should be a standard considering that a lot of provinces (and states) have laws that don't allow you to drive and talk on the phone.

 

[tyler_durden]

One that will search through the calendar is essential!

And how about a cursor that is more than 1 pixel wide so the trackball can be more useful?

TD

 

[daffyduck]

I would love the ability to change the color of the notification bar to black

also copy and paste in gmail

Spot on, +1 for both suggestions

 

[Rightontime]

Gtalk being as awesome as Blackberry messenger, a google reader app, being able to use different keyboards(like swype in portrait, and stock in landscape), and chording on stock keyboard.

 

[ragingyeti]

I would like to see notifications set to vibrate automatically when putting the phone in vibrate mode. Its annoying to have to to go through every app and select vibrate manually before I go into a meeting or a movie theater.

Also, most of what everyone else said.

 

[Deusdies]

All of the above + fixing all the damn bugs that 2.1 has

 

[outoffocus]

Ability to slow the processor speed (or some kind of auto setting) to save battery life on days you know you can't get a charge up. True 24-bit viewer gallery. 25 fps video recording. Turn on the LED when shooting video. More in-phone photo and video editing features. Yeah I know... I should probably root.

 

[SnotF]

This whole thread reads like an advocate for root.... and what makes a person think that price or contract has ANYTHING to do with a phones ability to tether??? As for the bt dial, the phone has the ability and so does the software, it was disabled for a reason... I hope you guys are aware of that.

 

[Rusty]

Forget Froyo... I'm holding out for 'Gurt

Gingerbread.

 

[Wolfedude88]

I am hoping for the ability to take a screen shot of the screen like the iphone. I bet that doesn't happen though.