To compete against Apple MobileMe or Microsoft My Phone this is a requirement

Imagine that you are with your laptop/netbook were you have no access to landline and WiFi APs. But you have your mobile with reasonable bandwidth fee. Currently you would have to do this (there are few commands and modifications to files):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup

On Windows it is few clicks with Bluetooth managers or PC Suites for mobiles.

PS: I tried to find if Gnome people are planning to put it into their Bluetooth manager but I could not.

The Network Manager includes a great Function for UMTS or Mobile Network.

But Features like SMS and so on are missing.

When NetworkManager connects to a Mobile Broadband it should tell you how its done, either 2G or 3G

With the uptake of mobile broadband devices as a more mainstram way of accesing the internet many companies are now offering really good deals. However all of these deals as far as I know have a limited amount of data transfer.

It is easy to rack up a lot of data usage on a connection without realising it and then get stuffed for a large bill.

We need a simple GUI to enter all the needed information to connect and access internet through any Mobile Network using a USB or PCMI Card

it is good to have 2 type of GUIs one for the most common settings and another for an advanced settings


I spent allot of time trying to configure Huawei E220 for a user!

we need a simple method for simple and advanced users that really works


Thank you

Having to adjust SMTP-server settings in your e-mail client every time you are on a new network with your laptop gets annoying, especially when you are traveling a lot.

What if Ubuntu had an forwarding SMTP-server by default, and you could set your e-mailclient to use 127.0.0.1 by default. This local server would check your IP and through a database find out a corresponding SMTP-server. (This is what I do "by hand", and there is very easy to find lists on SMTP-servers for different internet providers at least in Sweden) When all set up the forwarding server just works like a filter between your client and a correct SMTP-server without any need of reconfiguring your e-mail accounts. An alternative if the database bit would prove to be a challenge is to allow users to match IPs with SMTP-servers, at least then you will not need to do this more than once per network.

This would also work for any e-mail client, thunderbird, evolution or whatever.

When we connect to a wifi network, we can see the signal strength in a nice way, if we connect to a mobile broadband network all we get is a tower icon and no indication of the quality of the mobile broadband connection.