Re: Suggestions Pls: want to upgrade from my Sharp Wizard OZ-750
- From: John Tserkezis <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 12:51:51 +1000
keenan9@xxxxxxx wrote:
I need some practical suggestions. It's time to replace my 5 yr old
Sharp Wizard OZ-750, it's starting to fail. It's been perfect for
addresses/phone/birthdays -- very, very simple.
MY QUESTIONS:
- 1) what do people suggest I switch to for a address/birthday
orgqanizer? (I still need pretty simple functions, I'm very slow with
my laptop),
I'm probably not the person to ask about "simple", because to me, if it isn't flexible, it isn't worth it. That said, I have yet to see any (third-party or built in) software that is "hard to use". But that might be me.
I've been a Palm man myself, more because of the software availability rather than anything else. At risk of understating some of the units out there, I'd say that out-of-the-box, the calendar functions, the phone/address functions out there are all pretty much of the same standard- OK, but could be lots better.
So if you're not going to suppliment or replace the built-in software, then you can pretty much choose anything - you're going to be on fairly even footing.
If you ARE going to suppliment the software, then either Palm or a WindowsCE type PDA are the choices. With both you get syncronisation, that is, it duplicates changes made on the PDA and PC on both. That includes email on the units that support that.
With Palm, you have a palm-supplied "Palm Desktop" software, or I'm sure there's a condiut for Outlook (not sure, never use it). There are mac options too (It's called Missing Link I think?)
With Windows CE you sync with Outlook. I'm guessing here, but there are no "official" mac options for the windows CE PDAs, though I'm sure the mac guys would have put something together...
As far as "simple" goes, from my perspective, both (out of the box) palm and CE options are about the same (across their respective ranges).
Once you start supplimenting with third party software, they certainly can get more flexible, but how this translates to "complicated" is up to you.
We have some stores here with these on display, and you can at least ask the sales droids to have a play with them and see if it's going to work for you.
I imagine it's going to involve a bit of change on your part regardless, things would be done "differently" from the sharps - so don't get scared off too quickly.
- 2) is there a simple way to get my info/contacts pulled-out of my
current Wizard? Thanks folks!! ....Al in Nevada
I'm guessing here, but at worst, you will have comma-delimited text format data waiting for you on the PC once you're done. One way or another, you can get this into just about any software out there worth it's salt. So I don't see any problems in the data translation area.
A bit of net searching revealed software for the OZ-750, so you certainly have the potential to get your data off it, however you don't say if you have a cable. A VERY quick search revealed cables for your unit for around US$50 or so.
Assuming the software is free (shareware anyway), you have to decide (if you don't already have a cable), is your data worth $50, or are you going to do it manually? (Quite feasible if you don't have too much to do)
After some more reading, some of the Wizards have an IR port, but only the commercial software supports this.
There appears to be very little on making your own cable though.
So either way if you don't already have a cable, you have to evaluate if you need to spend that money on something that's going to only get your existing data out, and never be used again (likely).
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