My Christmas webOS Wishlist

pre_bow.jpgDear Santa,
If you are listening, and you happen to have any influence over the engineers at Palm, here's what I'd like to see in the next webOS update for my Palm Pre:

-- Date in info bar next to time*

-- Battery % in info bar next to icon*

-- Confirm when deleting emails from list view* (too easy to swipe the wrong one, and email app doesn't seem to sync my "All Mail' Gmail folder unless I open up that folder)

-- Turn off screen entirely when docked on Touchstone

-- Turn off "charging" sound when docked on Touchstone*

-- LED notifications*

-- Smaller icons in launcher (5x4 was wonderful)*

-- Fix the memory leak in Calendar (it's the only native app I can't leave open w/o bad things (e.g., "too many cards") happening)

-- Add 'agenda' view to Calendar (the Agenda app is a wonderful implementation of this)

-- Turn off Calendar's tendency to check the cloud each time a new day is viewed (sync every 15 min. + manual would be adequate)

-- Wrap text that goes wider than the location field in Calendar events*

-- Hide time outside my normal day (as currently set in prefs) unless there's an event there (like Palm OS calendar did)

-- In Calendar, when viewing a day, create a new all-day/untimed event when I start typing (like Palm OS calendar did; currently, keyboard does nothing unless I tap to create a new event first)

-- Onscreen volume control for BOTH types of volume (ringer & music) when I hit the physical volume rocker buttons

-- Turn off ALL sounds (ringer AND music) when physical ringer switch is on mute (currently only affects ringer)

-- Ability to see entire message in text message/IM alerts @ bottom of screen

-- Better formatting of photo filenames* (e.g., include the date in the filename as YYYYMMDD)

-- Save YouTube files in MP4 format* (my kids are especially thankful for this)

-- Disable camera shutter sound entirely* (because waking a sleeping toddler by taking a picture of him is very, very bad)

-- Individualized text message ringtones for each contact* (insanely useful)

-- Hang up calls by closing slider* (it's just such a natural thing to do)

-- Enable landscape view in every app (especially email and PDF viewer)

*These are patches that I dearly miss now that I've started using a "clean" Pre again.


I realize that not everyone will want all these, so maybe they could just be user-selectable options.

Thanks.
- Craig

p.s. Oh, and a pony.

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