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When the connection to the Blobbox fails we currently inform the user through a 
toast message.

We could use a dialog that:
- shows the error message
- suggests an action (check that the web console is turned on, check that wifi 
is turned on if on local lan, etc)
- allows to:
  - retry to connect to the box
  - go back to settings
  - dismiss the message

Also:
In the settings page we should allow the user to launch a connection test even 
if no setting has been changed.

Provide a UI with buttons for remote control keys and a text field so that 
virtual keyboard and voice input can be used to send text to the blobbox.

We will need to support different screen resolutions and orientations

We could divide the keys into multiple "tabs" (media playback, numeric, 
navigation, ...) and/or have a huge scrollable page with all buttons.

Some users report that links to PDF files are always handled by the blobbox 
remote applciation:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-blobbox-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a6b7
69ab7c4d7dd7

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Rodolfo suggests sending mail to self with PDF attachment
2. Silver's report suggests clicking on http link to PDF

Expected behaviour is for phone to present user with list of applications to 
use to handle PDF (including local download).

Silver is using Dolphin browser - this may not be relevant, but I recall Pan 
having problems with a pre-release of blobbox remote which were resolved by 
uninstalling Dolphin.

Currently the application connects to port 80 of the configured Blobbox ip 
address or hostname.

If the Blobbox web console is exposed on the internet through the "virtual 
server" feature of a home router, the public port may be other than 80.

We should allow to configure the web console port.

So that user does not have to insert IP address by hand.

We should produce a web page with screenshots from the phone and the blobbox 
showing how the application works.