My OperaCell phone scheduling (PIM/Cellphone Convergence)
By Eddieelcid73. Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:01:19 PM
My alarm clock as a neat feature. It has a calendar built into it so it always knows what day of the week it is. As such- it knows I like to sleep in on the weekends and I can set it to only go off Mon-Friday. It would be nice if there was a little more flexibility there, but that complicates the UI and is another post. On to cell phones...
We have USB/Bluetooth connections, sync capabalities, half-assed PIM functionality, calendars built in to these devices constantly striving for convergence, but why can't I tell my phone my schedule and have it do something meaningful as a result- like for instance- automatically set itself to vibrate or silent mode Mon-Friday from 8-5? Of course, you can over ride the setting- but it would be nice if I could tell my phone my class or work schedule up front and then have it switch to a respectible mode.
When syncing your real world software calendar (work/and home) with your cellphone calendar becomes actually useful.. ie when/if true PIM/Cellphone/organizer convergence becomes a reality, I would imagine an extra option available when creating appointments. We have reminders options and notification capabilities, I would imagine that you should also be able to set an option allowing for a "silent mode" Of course, there would be a small handful of other options- but focusing on silence, during the appointment time, the reminders and ringers would be set to vibrate or silent or whatever, even if a call is in progress (talking on the phone waiting for the prof to show up).
Hopefully, this would reduce to a great extent the awkward times when your cell phone goes off during a meeting or class. In my experience- the most important times in my life when I DO NOT what to have a phone ring are almost always on one or more of my calendars. Granted it wouldn't catch things like movies (who schedules a movie in a calendar?) but the presentation to management would likely be- I think this would catch most of the cases that I'm most worried about.
I suppose you should be able to control the scheduling even without any concrete or specific appointment to speak of.. just like my alarm clock.
Edit- interesting slashdot discussion on convergence. I don't feel like posting another topic on this, but I would say right off the bat that people want convergence- but the UI needs to be easy to use.PDA's probably are not as simple to use as an iPod. (I haven't used one since the first ghetto Zire- so I can't comment on PDA usability)
We have USB/Bluetooth connections, sync capabalities, half-assed PIM functionality, calendars built in to these devices constantly striving for convergence, but why can't I tell my phone my schedule and have it do something meaningful as a result- like for instance- automatically set itself to vibrate or silent mode Mon-Friday from 8-5? Of course, you can over ride the setting- but it would be nice if I could tell my phone my class or work schedule up front and then have it switch to a respectible mode.
When syncing your real world software calendar (work/and home) with your cellphone calendar becomes actually useful.. ie when/if true PIM/Cellphone/organizer convergence becomes a reality, I would imagine an extra option available when creating appointments. We have reminders options and notification capabilities, I would imagine that you should also be able to set an option allowing for a "silent mode" Of course, there would be a small handful of other options- but focusing on silence, during the appointment time, the reminders and ringers would be set to vibrate or silent or whatever, even if a call is in progress (talking on the phone waiting for the prof to show up).
Hopefully, this would reduce to a great extent the awkward times when your cell phone goes off during a meeting or class. In my experience- the most important times in my life when I DO NOT what to have a phone ring are almost always on one or more of my calendars. Granted it wouldn't catch things like movies (who schedules a movie in a calendar?) but the presentation to management would likely be- I think this would catch most of the cases that I'm most worried about.
I suppose you should be able to control the scheduling even without any concrete or specific appointment to speak of.. just like my alarm clock.
Edit- interesting slashdot discussion on convergence. I don't feel like posting another topic on this, but I would say right off the bat that people want convergence- but the UI needs to be easy to use.PDA's probably are not as simple to use as an iPod. (I haven't used one since the first ghetto Zire- so I can't comment on PDA usability)
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