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My Mobile Site widgets review and plans

Tue, 2008-03-11 16:32

Guest blogger: Marton Szomolanyi from My Mobile Site Widgets team



Sorry for the late post. I'm a typical developer who Tommi wrote about. I need to train/educate myself to treat public discussion with higher priority.

So what were the conclusions of My Mobile Site widgets trial?

• It seems that you like the concept of lightweight PC-Phone applications and this is a great platform to experiment with it.


• User feedbacks are very versatile. For example most of the feedbacks said that Signal widget is almost useless. But then someone wrote that he lives in the country side, and signal quality is a big problem there. So Signal widget is very useful for him.


• SMS widget was rated as most useful by far. The attention around the Text messenger Vista gadget proves this also.


• Tiny features around messaging like search capability was highly valued.


• Several feedbacks requested enhancements in UI, usability and more customization opportunities. We will try to do our best to correct them.

What's next?

• The 1.1 release is under development. Basically we keep the 1.0 architecture with a little bit better protocol (JSON-RPC).


• We correct and enhance the existing widgets and add some more features like Calendar and MMS sending. To show what the potential is in the remote access through Mobile Web Server we will show information about other mymobilesite.net users also.

I raised the question about the ultimate desktop widget platform, but it seems that this is a hard issue currently. Honestly I don't now the solution yet, but I will write down some thoughts in the Forum Nokia wiki. (Soon, I promise!)