I am a geek. No two geeks are exactly alike, we are all unique. I for instance don't care for Star Wars really at all. Where most of my other geeky friends do. I also don't really play many games, the ones I do play are not played with any kind of regularity. Just to name a couple things that set me apart from most of the geeks/nerds I associate with. I do know at least one person whom I wouldn't even call geeks but programs for a living.
I bring all this up because I want apps for my ipod touch and g1. I don't have all the geek skills to write the apps I've dreamt up. Not sure I am going to take the time to develop the skills as I'd be better served taking a class for Java and/or Objective C. I've already pitched the ipod/iphone app to a friend who is learning to write apps for the ipod/iphone. But there is no reason my G1/Android idea couldn't be done with the iPhone as well, in theory (I think).
In 2000 I had a nokia 6190 followed by an Nokia 8290. If you had the data cable or IR you could interface with the phones with your PC and send and read text messages via a application on the PC. This was especially nice as the 6190 didn't have predictive text. I'd like something like this for on the Android platform, but using WiFi maybe even bluetooth (once they have enhanced the bluetooth stack on the phone). Perhaps have the G1/Android device serve up a webpage that allows access to read and send text messages, or even a client server model with a specialized client to be used on the computer, perhaps that could integrate into an IM client via plugin.
I will be at my computer/laptop and hear a message come in and my phone is charging across the room or perhaps I don't hear it. I find it somewhat annoying to stop what I'm doing and fetch the phone then reply on the small keyboard/screen when I have perfectly good full sized ones in front of me already. I'm not sure if limitations of the iphone dev/terms would allow for this but in theory it could work on an iphone as well.
If someone makes me this app I will pay $25 to cover the dev account you may or may not already have with google...
Update: I-Jetty nearly does what I'm looking for, but not quite.
Posted by Ben at January 23, 2009 09:16 AM