I am not sure on the TomTom at the moment. I do love convergence but I would like to hear of someone using this effectively first...
Simongr, i d/l this as soon as i found it was out and have been using it around here, where i know where i'm going. It has routed me the correct way to everywhere i have asked it too including to home which has 2 different ways to go. One is the shortest but longest time route, the other one is longer distance but shorter time so you can see what the GPS has issues with. It calculates routes in a matter of seconds and always gets a fix under 60 seconds, which does seem like a long time but isn't really. Well worth the $100 they ask imo and i just hope that they don't want another $100 or whatever next year for updated maps or something...
Thanks for the advice about ReQall - it is a very useful program and i can see it being very powerful too, the only thing i do have to ask is - is there a way to get ReQall to put it into my tasks? I was, until i went to the iPhone, a very heavy user of tasks to remind me to do stuff and i still havent found a useful task program.
If you dont have a lot of recurring appointments, like me who has about 70 a week, another awesome program with fantastic developers that i use is
Pocket Informant
. Great tech support when something does go wrong and all in all a very polished program for the iPhone. I used to use it on WM2003-6 but after 9 years of development on that platform it was off the show but the iPhone version still has a while to go but good nonetheless.
I use
Autozoid for keeping track of my cars costs and economy etc.
I use
Evernote for my notekeeping. This is mainly because its across the BB/iPhone/internetaccesibility so whereever i am i can see my notes which has come in very handy in the past.
Ozweather for weather as it takes it data from BOM rather than wherever the inbuilt weather app gets it from which is almost always wrong.
Timetracker for keeping track of time on the job - very handy if you reckon you have misquoted and want to double check, the last update enabled you to keep track of 2 times at once which makes it even better.
Twitterfon - not the best twitter client out there but good enough for me.
Ebuddy for a one stop look at all my account like bank, cc, most of my FF accounts. There isnt a whole lot of Aussie vendors on there yet but when they hop on board it will be awesome!
Facebook - for those of you not on FB lets jsut say that this one does get a bit of a workout. To those of you on FB - enough said.
Google - My life is with google so this in one of the most used apps. From calendar to contacts to RSS to docs and everything in between.
QF009, if you're trying to work out BB vs iPhone. I have both and would say that the iPhone wins hands and pants down. I have the BB Bold which is supposed to be the fastest etc. but honestly it is absolute garbage. I dont use it for too many phone calls as its attached to a number that not many people call on yet and the battery still only lasts me from 8ish till 1ish in the afternoon and im not on it that much. Maybe an hour of Twitter/FB/general surfing/email/texts etc. and its a shame becuase it has a really powerful phone program. I spend more time waiting for the spinning disk than actually using it and mostly get so frustrated with it that i end up using the iPhone.
I have a simple test called the grandma test - it involves giving my mother a phone, giving her a quick lesson and letting her go for it. She was able to use the iPhone in about 10 mins effectively so then i gave her the BB and she didnt even bother with it coz it was so hard!
[/aside] I also have a 5 year old who raises eyebrows when she starts using our iPhones when were out. It keeps her quiet for hours on end and she knows what expected of her when she does play the games on it. It's hilarious the looks on peoples faces when she knows where to go and what to do with it! And when i upgrade to the 3Gs she'll get my old one (without SIM of course) as there are over 110 apps on it and theres a substantial amount on there for her.[aside]
As this is i think the biggest post ive ever made here I'll sign off now!
Now just loading up some of those apps I could use before...
