I've just moved from using Tungsten T3 for contacts and calendar to HTC Desire - something I was hoping would be a good experience, especially as it's gonna cost me an arm and a leg over the coming 18 months !
I'll skip over the fact that it took me a lot of hours of sweat & swearing even just to move contacts to the droid, I seemed to hit every problem there is and more - even the one about my version of IE on my desktop not being able to run GMail as it complains about a non-existent popup blocker every time I try to add a contact, so have to use laptop or different browser. The main issue was that I was really tied into the palm desktop which I thought was just so much cleaner than outlook, plus I'd got contacts just on my old phone and I'd also some in Yahoo and Outlook - just for good measure.
My main point here however is that whilst the syncing between gmail & the standard calendar is great, the actual functionality of the calendar on the mobile is just so far behind the palm calendar, that I do need to find a replacement app. I've trawled around a bit ad there are various suggestions each that have some fixes for my problems, but can any of you come up with a suggestion of a single app that covers the following gripes:-
- No colour coding of categories of entries. i.e. provisional and confirmed.
- I know you can use different calendars to provide the above, but you then can't move events between calendars, you have to delete then re-enter
- The calendar screen is always portrait - doesn't auto-rotate
- If you add a birthday in the contact details - it doesn't show in the calendar
- You can enter a repeating task, but you can't put an end date on it i.e. Monday mornings 1 hr meeting for the next 4 weeks.
- Week view does not show what the appointments are for - just that you're doing something.
- You can't set a default of no alarm when you add an event - you can only go to minimum of 5 minutes before.
- If you want to move an event, when you edit it, there is no calendar lookup facility to assist you to where it has to move to, you just spin the wheels - it doesn't even tell you which day the date it !
As the days have moved on, I am seeing the great potential this device has (google sky map - brilliant !), but cannot understand why no one has matched the palm app that's been out for years - can anyone help ?