BlackBerry: terrible descriptions of serious features
terrible descriptions of serious features
by xarophti - 8/11/09 8:47 PMThe problem I'm having is my husband and I need to move from a Palm-type PDA format to something a little more modern. Believe it or not, we're still using old Handspring Visors with VisorPhone attachments. Reasons for this are familiarity with the Palm OS and refusal to give up the Graffiti interface. As more SMS messages from "modern" phones are crashing our devices, we realize an upgrade is going to be required, and we're going to be stuck playing thumb piano on little tiny keyboards, like it or not, arthritis or not. My problem is deciding which device. One of my main considerations in a device is the CALENDAR!!! I rely on my "cyberbrain" to organize my life, and almost no description of any smartphone gives any detail of the calendar function. If specifications mention it at all, it's more of a "oh, yeah, it has a calendar". (I even ran the interactive "Blackberry 101" on the Blackberry site and it covered just about everything BUT the calendar!) Ok, so most of them will set appointments with alarms. Recurring appointments? A "no time" appointment that appears on the heading of a day (a Palm feature)? "Floating Events" that will move to the next calendar day if you don't check them off as complete? A to-do list? Does it HAVE to synch with Outlook to work (I won't use Outlook)? How about some details, screen shots, ANYTHING???
All anybody seems to care about anymore is toys and geegaws (games, web-surfing, cute ringtones, mp3 player, and an umpteen mega-pixel camera)! (ok, rant over)
Suggestions, anyone?
Calendar Features on BlackBerry
by blackcoffeenosugar - 8/12/09 8:32 AM In reply to: terrible descriptions of serious features by xarophtiCalendars on all smartphones have very similar features. On BlackBerry Calendar is no exception. You can set an alarm for your appointment, create recurring appointments, create all-day appointments (i.e. no time appointments). There isn't a way to create a "floating event". I think that is a Palm-only concept as I have never seen it on other type of smartphones besides BlackBerry either.
BlackBerry doesn't come with a to-do list application. I get away with Memopad (an equivalent to Notepad on Windows PCs). But there are plenty of free or paid third-party options.
BlackBerry devices are designed to work on its own. You can, but you don't have to, sync the calendar with Outlook or any other applications on your computer. If you would like to back up your appointments it is more convenient to install Google Sync to your BlackBerry an let it sync your calendar and contacts with that from your Gmail account.
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