Applications you wish were ported from other platforms
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Revision as of 11:28, 3 October 2009
While waiting for Rx-51 and friends, it could be useful to list all those apps from other platforms (Symbian, Palm, Iphone, Java etc.) you can't live without, and you wish were ported on your new maemo convergence device.
Please list here, also including the operating system, the developer's site if you know it, and a brief summary of their functionality.
You should include only already existing apps which are today available for other mainstream pocketable devices, not generic rants for some generic fancy functionality, or applications meant for desktop computers. This way, we can keep high the signal-to-noise ratio and maybe select a number of developers we should convince to work on the new maemo platform.
ABBYY Lingvo Mobile Symbian, Windows Mobile - http://www.abbyy.com/lingvomobile - multilingual translation dictionary for mobile devices
Shazam Id - Symbian, Iphone, Blackberry, Android - http://www.shazam.com - listens to music and recognizes author and title.
Audials mobile - Symbian - http://audials.com - searches for author or genre, leeches mp3 files from online social radios.
Total recall - Symbian - http://www.killermobile.com - records phone calls without the "beep"; this is also accomplished by Ultimate voice recorder - Symbian - http://www.fingertip-access.com
Epocrates - Palm, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and BlackBerry - http://www.epocrates.com - medical drug reference
Amazon Mobile - Iphone - http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000291661 - ebook reader for Amazon books
Amazon MP3 mobile - Iphone and Google G1 (Android) - App to buy and manage mp3 downloads from Amazon MP3 store at amazon.com/mp3.
RunKeeper - Iphone - http://www.runkeeper.com - tracks running through GPS
StockWatch - Iphone - http://iphone.toughturtle.com/stockwatch/ - Financial app to monitor a list of user defined stocks and portfolio's and all financial graphs and data associated with the said stocks.
Google maps for mobile - Symbian, Iphone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Java MIDP, Windows mobile - http://www.google.com/mobile/products/maps.html#p=default - maps application with points-of-interest taken from the Google search engine
Coreplayer - Symbian, Symbian UIQ, WinMo, Palm, WinCE - www.coreplayer.com - Multimedia playback
OVI Maps - Symbian - http://maps.ovi.com - GPS navigation system
CoPilot - Symbian, IPhone, Android - http://www.alk.com/copilot/ - GPS navigation system
ViewRanger - Symbian - http://www.viewranger.com - Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS
Garmin - Symbian, WinMo, Blackberry - http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/mobilext/ - GPS navigation system
GeoLives - Sybian and WinMo - http://www.geolives.com - Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS
JoikuSpot - Symbian - http://www.joikuspot.com - Enable phone to be a wifi hotspot.
Vlingo - Symbian, WinMo, Blackberry, Iphone - http://www.vlingo.com - Control mobile phone by voice.
SportsTracker - Symbian - http://sportstracker.nokia.com - Gps based activity tracker.
Wellness Diary - Symbian - http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/wellness-diary - Monitor and track a ranger of health related parameters.
StepCounter - Symbian - http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/nokia-step-counter - Counts your steps, determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure, records data.
T9 Nav - Symbian - http://www.t9nav.com/ - Find anything on mobile device instantly.
Device Lock - Symbian - http://webgate.mobi/advanced_device_locks_pro/ - Mobile security - restrict access to apps, secure data storage, remotely lock/wipe data.
Spotify client - Android, Iphone, Symbian (under development) - http://spotify.com - Client for streaming music from Spotify service.
Skebby - Symbian - http://www.skebby.it - Send sms messages at low prices or for free
Nimbuzz - S60, iPhone, Android, Windows - http://www.nimbuzz.com - Great multiprotocol messenger.
Gravity - S60 - http://www.mobileways.de - THE Twitter App for S60.
Evernote client (or an open, N900 contacts like, note-sync /notes-cloud service). http://www.evernote.com/
GTD application (Getting Things Done): like ominfocus - with sync capabilities [at least with] the N900 calendar application. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/
PhoneTorch - S60 - an application which uses the integrated camera flash as a Torch.
Expense Tracker - S60 - an application to track day-to-day expenses. It should also give nice reports of all the expenses. Like: http://www.flyingbirdsoft.com/products/flyingmoney.html
Business Card Reader - S60 - scans business cards using camera and populates an addressbook entry automatically. Like : http://www.abbyy.com/bcr/
Wallet - S60 - Keeps a list of all the bank, creditcard, login details. It should also synchronise with PC. Like : http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/wallet/
SMS Timer - S60 - an application which sends SMSs at a time scheduled earlier. Like: http://www.mobimonster2.com/SMS_Timer.asp
WaveSecure - S60 - Allows remote backup, tracking and locking of a stollen phone. Like : https://www.wavesecure.com/
Automatic profile switcher - S60 - The profile, theme, wallpaper, audio and all user customizable content can be set automatically based on user location(gps/GSM cell id), time, calendar entry etc. Like : http://nokia-5800-software.smartphoneware.com/profiles.php
Call Recorder - S60 - An call recording application with rules for saving conversations for incoming/outgoing calls from known/unknown numbers. It should be able to record call automatically or manually by pressing a button. Like: http://nokia-5800-software.smartphoneware.com/callrecorder.php
Birthday Reminder - S60 - An application that helps organizing and viewing birthdays and anniversaries in a handy way: monthly view of anniversaries found in Contacts applications. It also puts an appointment in the native calendar and sends greeting automaticaly(if user wishes so). Like: http://nokia-5800-software.smartphoneware.com/birthday.php
Blacklist - S60 - An application which blocks calls and SMSs from all the nubers in a black list. Optionally it should also be able to send custom messages when a blocked no calls or sends an SMS. Like : http://nokia-5800-software.smartphoneware.com/blacklist.php
Augmented Reality Applications - S60, Android, Iphone - The application overlays the image stream generated from the camera with markers of "Points of Interest" around the user. Like : http://seqpoint.com/beta-labs/69
iGolf Scorer - S60 - An application dedicated to Golfers like http://www.igolfscorer.com/
Hour Power - S60 - Speaks the current time (see Ovi)
Trapster - S60 - Speed camera tracking and warning (see Ovi)
WorldMate - S60 - Travel info (see Ovi)
Insert here, instead, those free and open-source application you wish on your maemo 5 device. Being non commercial software, with source available, they might be more straightforward to port, needing only (!) good-will, time and energy.
Aeskulap - Ubuntu linux, Windows - http://aeskulap.nongnu.org - radiology viewer (or any other that works, for that matter)
By the way, Aeskulap is already available in debian repositories through Easy Debian
Openoffice.org - Linux, Windows, Mac OS - http://www.openoffice.org - open-source, free office suite. Already available for armel architecture in debian.
Cabbage - Java - http://cabbagetexter.com/ - Send free txts via SMS. Irish only and Java, so unsure if it should be here, but a more sophisticated version would be nice.
Panoman - Symbian - ??? - Make and view panorama images with phone. Think has been bought up by Nokia ?
KeepassX - Linux, Windows - http://www.keepassx.org/ - Password management.
Tellico - Linux - http://tellico-project.org/ - Collection manager, books, videos, etc.
Comix - Linux - http://comix.sourceforge.net/ - Image viewer specifically designed for comics.
Musicbrainz Picard - Linux, Mac, Windows - http://musicbrainz.org - Mp3 tagger.
Abiword the fantastic Maemo 4 version ported to Maemo 5 - http://www.abisource.com/ https://garage.maemo.org/projects/abiword/