Personal tools
Open Moko is a fantastic, super cool idea and the founders are to be lauded, congratulated, and bequeathed many great free beers.
I've been using Linux since 1993 and, though it was a while back, have done a ton (~= 10 yrs) of coding in C and plan on developing some pet apps for OM.
Apps
Audio Recorder: I'm guessing that many people (I'm one) would like to have a recorder integrated into their phone/PFA (i.e., OM phone). Here's a few comments I just read today from a writers' list:
I'm on the market for a new digital recorder and the pod-favorite olympus dm-10 has been discontinued. any suggestions? thanks, steve * I've got a little Panasonic that I've been pretty happy with, and it came with some easy to use software. It's model number RR-US380, but I'm sure by now there's an update/newer model. * I'm rollin' with the olympus DS-2, love it and mac compatible... (also think its a little less than dm-10) * I have an Olympus WS-310M. It (and it's variants... this one stores 512 MB, but there are other models that store 256 MB and 1 GB) records directly to WMA files. I think those play on Macs, if you have the Mac version of Windows Media Player installed. * Sound is excellent (and in stereo, which sometimes helps), and, even at the highest quality you can fit over 17 hours of recordings on it. * I¹ve got the DS-2 and am not crazy about it. Battery hog, awkward software interface on my mac, and the buttons and folders are fairly complicated. Or maybe I¹m just not very good with it. * I have the Olymous WS-300M and love it. It's very easy to use even for technophobes like me and records up to 8 hours. Works with Macs.
The above would give designers some clues as to what consumers like and don't like and so help design a smooth app. Having a way to record voice audio would, in addition, be a stepping stone to emailing voice messages and having a message answer incoming calls when you can't or don't want to answer and probably several other nice apps.
