<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">After a few weeks of using Blink, I would like to propose six requests and fixes:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1. Feature request: during call: tape icon for recording<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This was actually used in the first blink release and later removed because though it sounded great it was ugly.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">2. Fix: contacts: middle name display order</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Will be done in next release.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">3. Fix: better contact search</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> ========================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> In a situation where address book contains a card like...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> first:"John" middle:"F." and last:"Kennedy",<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> and typing exactly "John F. Kennedy" into the blink "Search Contacts and Address Book" box,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> no result is returned, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> as soon as the first character of the middle name has been typed ("John F") no results are available.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Please try to do better (sub)string matching.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>High chance that will be done in next release.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">4. Feature request: have lower audio bandwidth consumption during call, by allowing codec (quality) preferences</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> ========================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> When being mobile on expensive € 0.18 - € 12 /MB, 3G GSM network data connections,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> you would like to transfer as few bits as possible while calling,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> current blink 0.19.1 gives only the option to choose a coded.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> What is needed next, are more options to set the codecs (quality) preferences, to reduce bandwidth to the bare minimum.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>You may want to try GSM codec, it has about 30Kbit/s, if the other end point support it you may put this as your first preference. Same for iLBC.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Codecs are negotiated by both end-points and are not depending on Blink alone. Then most of the codecs that feature compression have usually a license that is incompatible with a free software like Blink. The codecs are not part of Blink but belong to libraries that Blink uses so the chance of this happening is very low also for this reason. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">5. Feature request: hide / reorder fax numbers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> =========================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Novice blink users having fax numbers stored in their Address Book,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> can become frustrated by the blink "Search Contacts and Address Book" results.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> These results list both phone and fax numbers, without any differentiation between these.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Even the word "fax" is stripped of the label, only remaining "home", "work".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Please [a] don't change address book labels, and show "fax" when it is a fax number,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> [b] reorder, the search results to display "phone" numbers first and "fax" numbers last,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> [c] by default hide fax numbers at all on new installations, and give power users the preference to unhide.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something around this logic can be done.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">6. Fix: remove "Add to Conference" button displayed over random "Search Contacts and Address Book" results<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This is bug that I am aware of but I am not able to reproduce it, it happens seldom. I hope we can catch it at some point in time.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"> =========================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> On fresh blink 0.19.1 application start, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> a search returns results and shows a (disabled) "Add to Conference" button above the result lines.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> After making a few phone calls and searches (can't tell the exact path to reproduce though this happens often),<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> this (disabled) "Add to Conference" button is positioned over one of the search results (2nd, 3th).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> See attached screen shots.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>