Hey, I know there already are some feature requests in other threads but I thought maybe there could be a dedicated one and I also wanted to drop some. So…
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Recurring events in the calendar app should be possible.
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There should be a stopwatch and a timer as part of the clock app.
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It would be nice if there was a way to switch on the background light via a hardware input (volume up + on/off or something like that). I found myself in the dark once and wanted to switch on the flashlight but couldn’t even read the display because the light was off.
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It would be cool if it was possible to assign the little front LED to different things like notifications. It would be a nice way to avoid having to unlock the phone to check if anything happened. Right now it only indicates “low” battery meaning there is still 12h left (at least when I checked) which is not that relevant for me. At least for me it would be much more useful if it would tell me if there are pending notifications as I mainly use Signal (Molly) as a means of communication on the Kompakt and have to check every now and then.
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A selection of shorter notification sounds would be nice. I really like the general sound design of the Kompakt. However, all the notification sounds are somewhat long which can get annoying when receiving lots of messages in a row. Some really short and snappy sound like the unlocking click would be great. Maybe the sound of Hyōshigi (Japanese wood clappers) would be fitting.
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Being able to kill apps without menu diving could be helpful. I don’t know how relevant this is but as I use side loaded apps I would appreciate an easy way to shut them down when I’m done using them.
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(I know this has been requested before but… ) Custom icons for side loaded apps would be cool. Some of them end up being just black squares which makes navigation more tedious. Maybe just have a selection of generic icons one can assign. For example just have a color inverted (black background white logo) version of the music player icon that one could use for Spotify or other services like that.
Other things I noticed but don’t really care about since I don’t use the apps:
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It should be possible to remove the meditation cards from the reader app. At least the ones in all the languages I don’t speak are just clutter.
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The keyboard does not show suggestions when I use Molly (even when private keyboard is deactivated). Don’t know why that is but I installed SwiftKeyboard anyway.
All that being said, I have to say that I really really love the Kompakt so far. It’s such a great everyday companion <3