But I haved a problem I hope to solved or gave me advies for this

whan some one call me im my N900 it’s ringing after 4 – 5 second not direct,and if some whin make a call in 2 or 3 second my phone not ringing and show me miss call !!

any advis or future solutions for this problem ??

regard

One reason for groups it that you may hundreds of customers in the phone. You don’t really know the people so when you get the call, the name may not be enough to understand who is calling – you may need some way to hear or see a company name.

If getting support calls, you may need to be able to separate customers who have flat-rate support and customers who have to pay for each call, in which case you would like color, ring signal or text to give some feedback. And the flat-rate support may be allowed to call through during weekends, while the pay-per-call customers only has 8-17 support hours. Some companies have multiple support numbers that gets routed – some companies don’t.

With lots of people, you will get multiple name collisions – how do you separate your friend “John Anderson” from customer “John Anderson” or that evilishly boring sales person “John Anderson” who always wants you to replace your copier with his brand?

Children playing football? You may have 20 numbers to other parents in the football team. You don’t know half of them. How do you recognize that one of them is calling? Or how do you find a list of football parents, in case you need to call someone but can’t remember the name until you see it?

Some numbers you may add for short-term use. You want to be able to locate the names and garbage-collect them a month after the last incomming or outgoing call – it may be a number you got on a sticky on your monitor about someone to call to solve a problem.

In the end, a phone book is way more than a list of names and numbers. It is one of several organizers used to keep control of your business and private life.

The ability to group people, and to receive a call while seeing not just the name but some associated information such as a company name or a free-text field before picking up a call is a very useful feature. In some situations, controllable ring signals can help with some of these tasks – for example separating family from friends, from priority customers from unprioritized customers.

That is why groups and multiple ring signals is one of the basic features of a phone.

A phone that is a computer should obviously be able to do more than just switch ring signal.

It should for example be able to integrate contact information with calendar information so that you may directly see your next planned meeting, or what you did agree about during your previous call and/or meeting. “A yes, but let’s focus on this question next week, since I will visit you on tuesday morning… By the way – are you happy with the software changes I sent you after our last call?”

When “only” having a phone, it may be natural to have your computer as PIM – or maybe a large and heavy paper/skin edition. Having a computer that is also a phone, you really expect it to manage to do a reasonably good job.

The N900 ends up short both as phone and as a computer. The hardware is capable enough, but the base applications are each on it’s own too lite. And they don’t merge together to form a unified product.

With 100% public code, third party code could add the missing features, or release versions that better merges different features. Right now, we are seeing islands of applications solving small niche problems but that fails with the integration since integration requires replacing basic features with open-source alternatives.

Palm failed badly trying to move into mobile phones. Most mobile phone vendors have failed badly releasing PIM solutions.

The N900 is a platform that could merge the two, except for the time needed to replace all parts with open-source alternatives. Nokia probably underestimated the amount of work it would take to move their functionality from Symbian. And since Nokia seems to have moved their focus in other directions, that work now has to be recreated once more by volunteers.

i think only content search not help. for example, if i merge contacts i got only short list, and cont figure what person merge to if it three identical “first last”.

In general, only “name lastname” too little, for correct identification.
Must be something else – the groups, company names, nicknames (with the name and surname, such as winmobile “Last ‘nickname’ First”).

[Edit: serious question, I'm not trolling. It's just that if I want to implement it I need to know what people want]

I converted all my ringtone to .wav. 5mb or less per ringtone.

I’m just waiting for Crochik to link SMS to group and I will be happy.