02-21-2007, 03:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Agendus For Windows Mobile Released
http://www.iambic.com/agendus/wmppc/details.asp
"We understand a busy professional like you need a Personal Information Management solution that is powerful and customizable yet still mobile, convenient, and easy to use. We give you Agendus, which holds the essence of all your needs and more. Agendus offers unmatched contact, calendar, tasks and calls management that you won't find in the native programs or any other PIM software."
Agendus has long been one of the most popular PIM managers on PalmOS and now it is available for Windows Mobile. It uses the Pocket Outlook databases on your Pocket PC so all of your data is synchronized with Outlook or Exchange. It supports appointments, contacts, tasks, and has the ability to update itself wirelessly. There is a trial available or you can buy it for $19.99. The site has dozens of screenshots so you can get a feel for what the product is capable of.
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02-21-2007, 05:02 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 8
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* do not use this app *
Well, I installed the PC version of the software. It will put all extra icon & color data as an extra text in your outlook "notes" field. When I started to categorize my 6000 appointment entries from the last years I wondered about the huge size increase of "pim.vol" on my WM5 device. Then I realized the extra text in the notes field. I de-installed the application - but the de-installer did NOT delete all the Icon and color data. So I got a 3MB increase in my ppc device data file - and no way to delete the useless extra information.
Well, how do you think Agendus will work on your device? it will basically do the same, leaving you with a big RAM loss on your device.
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02-21-2007, 06:15 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 16
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This software simply is too "Palmish"
As Iambic announced the beta version I allready told them that in my oppinion this application is far too "Palmish" for my taste (and I think also for most other WM users).
They simply don't follow the Windows Mobile development style guides! Why use custom scroll bars, why custom buttons, ...?
I also discovered the behaviour where configuration is written to the notes field of each entry - this behaviour is same as in Agendus for PalmOS (which I used a long time as a Palm user).
I really don't think this application will make it's way (if they don't change fundamental things!) ...
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02-21-2007, 07:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 172
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When I was a Palm user, I LOVED Agendus. Check that...I loved ActionNames...back in the day...I liked Agendus. Good tool on the Palm side.
I could no longer keep paying for bug fixes and just ran with version 8 for years until I got my Axim.
If you buy the product be aware, that Agendus, like all software will have bugs. Fine, that's to be expected. However, unlike other software applications, they very infrequently release free patches.
What Iambic likes to do is fix bugs in the next release. So...for example. If the strikethrough feature broke in their v8 release. You didn't get a fix to the bug unless you purchased v8.5. Worked in v7, broke in v8, fixed in v8.5 = $ for a feature that should have been patched for free in v8. Lots of users screamed for it.
To be fair, major issues are resolved in releases for free, b/c they had to, but there were lots of times that you had to continually pay for an upgrade to get a fix for the previous version.
I finally just got tired of it and went PPC & DeveloperOne.
Honestly, they always focused on the next version, and didn't focus enough on supporting GA'd products. I hope they've resolved that.
Now that I'm on a t-Mobile SDA...AgendaOne would be hard to equal. Developer One has really stepped up! On the fly product updates directly to my phone? How sweet is that!
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02-21-2007, 07:25 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 309
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Since PI and AF are so good, agendus has a strong competition... and i don�t think they can handle it. I tried the windows version also, but it was not that great. Saddly.
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02-21-2007, 07:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 172
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I just checked Developer One's updates...since GA, AgendaOne has been patched & had some nice functionality added for free 18 times since GA in Nov. 2006. 18 patches & upgrades in 4 months time. Way to go DeveloperOne! :way to go:
Iambic has some tough competition in the PPC space. Its unlikely PI & DO are going to go quietly.
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02-21-2007, 07:55 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 4
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When I see comments around the fact we always charge for upgrades I just can't resist to drop in a little clarification  -- all our minor updates are free of charge and, I could be wrong, but I believe we do update most of our titles pretty often -- as an example:
http://www.iambic.com/agenduspro/palmos/whatsnew.asp
all the 11.x have been free of charge and brough in significant additions to the initial 11.0
Looking for even more frequent updates? Then glance over our forums where we recently started ongoing beta releases -- Agendus for Windows Mobile Pocket PC being the first experiment around this (we curretly have build 115 in the beta releases forums, likely to get replaced with build 116 later today).
- Adriano
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02-21-2007, 08:01 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 486
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It should be noted that WebIS also provides "minor" updates for free and we do about 4-6 a year and usually incorporate some major new functionality in each release. We used to do a very large number of updates, but we found that users really don't like having to reinstall their software every 2-4 weeks and that testing suffered greatly which means that the quality suffered. So now we usually provide final releases of our "Revisions" every 2-3 months which incorporate big improvements between each release. We also do OTA updates.
We are a few days away from releasing the first major beta of Pocket Informant Rev 3 where we are providing some very big improvements not available on any other PIM including the topic thread here.
I normally don't like to "hijack" a thread like this, but since it seems to have already moved to a discussion on all the major PIMs I thought I should mention us. BTW - there is a good reason why PI was the fourth best selling application of any kind on Handango for 2006 and #1 in the PIMs.
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02-21-2007, 10:45 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 76
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adriano-
I'd like to hear a response/explanation to Rex's comment in post 2, above. If he's correct, that's a pretty nasty side-effect of an installation of Agendus.
-- Andrew
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02-21-2007, 10:56 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 138
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And Ulti-Planner(the longtime #3 PIM) is still out there and has NEVER charged for major or minor updates, and is currently on sale for $11.95. We are also getting a new release ready AND are also readying a version of our very popular eXtreme Agenda(XA). We are porting XA over from the WM Smartphone side to come compete as well. OTA updates are coming soon along with a lot of other big big things... You can check out XA to see just how we are pushing the envelope in only 6 months, and will keep on pushing...
Welcome to the market Agendus...
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