"Beyond Contacts"

[jwsp]

Got a very enthusiastic e-mail from DataViz about an application called Beyond Contatcs wheich they seem very pleased with. Anyone tried it?

[L-3]

Tried it, but it has some 'shortcomings'. Especially for those of us with HiRes+ screens (no support, only 320x320). It sucks up ALOT of RAM (more than ContactsPro and AgendusPro combined), and although they claim it's ' like Outlook on your PDA' the only truth in that is by comparing it to Outlook95.

I actually was a beta tester for it and REPEATEDLY (throughout the various beta versions) requested 480x320 support, more 'up-to-date' Oulook stylings and better support for the jogdial and back buttons and got none of them.

Furthermore, I am REALLY Pi$$ed at Dataviz for dropping support for DesktopToGo. According to them, if I want to continue to use a DataViz product to sync with Outlook, I have to use BeyondContacts because they're no longer supporting their older sync software. Geez, did they hire some disgruntled Microsoft employee to dream up this sceheme?

Needless to say, I went back to Agendus, and although I really like the DesktopToGo sync interface (and do think its superior) I am having to consider a switch to PocketMirror in order to not have to load bloatware on my Clie and be able to get support.

[jbarr]

One major nitpik for me (on the first released verion--I can't speak to the most current version) is that though you can map the various functions to the hard buttons, there are no "stub" apps that you can actually launch from a launcher. Yes, you can launch the "main" Beyond Contacts app and then "jump off" to wherever you want, but if you simply want to, say, launch the Contacts or the Appointments modules, you have to go through the extra step of first launching the main app then launching the desired module.

I leave my NX70V in "tablet" mode so the hard buttons are not accessible. I rely on Zlauncher and QuickLaunch Anywhere to launch my apps, and Beyond Contact's model simply doesn't work for me. Even with Docs2go, you can launch the specific modules separatly.