Comments on: Defining good Contacts application

By: 2009 Timeline – Marcin Juszkiewicz

2009 Timeline – Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:56:52 +0000

[...] do toolchain adaptationsJulygot offer from ST-Ericsson company to give a talk during their workshopwrote summary of my thoughts about Contacts application — Maemo5 has is quite nicely done but still many things from my post are not there.updated my [...]

By: N900 arrived – Marcin Juszkiewicz

N900 arrived – Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:43:30 +0000

[...] application integrates also Instant Messaging. It looks like someone read my previous post about defining good contacts application — you have people and can add Jabber/Skype/ICQ/MSN/SIP/etc protocols to each of them. Looks [...]

By: Fredrik Wendt

Fredrik Wendt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:38:44 +0000

I agree with Bruce N – I have 600 contacts in Evolution, perfectly synced with my SonyEricsson M600i. I don’t mind if it’s a manual process, but import/export of vcards is essential to me.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:36:24 +0000

Once you’ve got all this functionality working, also remember to give users the chance to turn it off selectively. The set of people you call with a mobile and the set of people you friend on a social site and the set of people you IM are going to overlap, but unfortunate things can happen if they’re supposed to be identical.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:42:13 +0000

People invented SyncML for this. There are many providers for it on internet — some are free, some are paid, some works better or not.

By: Bruce N

Bruce N — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:03:12 +0000

import / export utility is key same for any calendar app.

By: Aniello Del Sorbo

Aniello Del Sorbo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:48:57 +0000

Well the HTC Hero is coming out soon. I’ve tried the new ROM on my magic and I can tell it does what you ask for.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:41:05 +0000

Hmm… will have to look. The problem would be where :D

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:40:27 +0000

Both have a use. If I have conference call to all guys from software team I would rather create a group which would contain them and call all of them at once (using VoIP conference). Tags are rather for marking people.

By: Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:23:32 +0000

I agree with most of what you say, except that groups are a deprecated concept, I’d rather have tags :)