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Outlook 2010

January 22, 2010 By George Leave a Comment

I installed the beta of office 2010 a week or so ago, I only installed outlook because I use 07 for everything else but today I think I’m giving up on it.

Outlook 2010 is great, its a lovely piece of software and by all means it has a lot of cool features, but its connectivity with my blackberry sucks, which rendered half of it completely useless to me.

And I can’t seem to find a way to send feedback without the send a smile thing, which to me is essentially ‘let’s take a snapshot of your computer, processes, and anything else we like to peruse’ so I’m not a fan of that.

So, when I get home I think I will probably uninstall 2010, stick with my 2007 which doesn’t have outlook.

I do like the interface though. It looks very pretty and everything I need is fairly easy to access, although the send receive button could maybe be somewhere on the home tab in the ribbon thing – its more nitpicking than anything.

But as it is it annoys me, I am thinking of leaving it in favour of online email (apps by Google) and the email on my blackberry, the combination of the two will do me nicely :).

[written from my blackberry, on opera mini, which is brilliant]

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Blackberry?

December 14, 2009 By George Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I invested in a Blackberry 8120 Pearl. I needed a new phone, and it was a good deal, etc etc. I’d been considering a Blackberry before; having talked to someone I’ve worked with in the past, I figured a Blackberry would be a good way to go.

And I’m really, really pleased with it. Granted, it’s an old design of a phone and in some ways I wish I’d bought a Curve, but budget limits stopped play with that, so a pearl it was.

The little features really did it for me, I love the Blackberry Internet Service, and the way it works with it’s ‘holster’, and I have been lucky enough to have the help of Donald Kelly in getting going with it – he has *far* more expertise than I do.

What it means though, is that I can pick up my email within five minutes of having it sent to me, wherever I am. And that’s brilliant.

I’m really pleased that I didn’t wait and buy an iPhone, I actually think that I prefer my berry to the (4x price) iPhone, just for the little things it does which I’ve never seen on an iPhone.

I’ve also been looking at the new Blackberry 9100 Stratus, the replacement for the Pearl, and I think that looks *amazing*.

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Apple Wins Again

October 4, 2009 By George Leave a Comment

I heard in the last few days that Orange (the mobile network I use) were going to be selling the iPhone 3G / 3GS to their customers in the next few months. This excited me quite a bit, because I’ve always loved the iPhone, and if the o2 signal wasn’t so awful around here I might have looked at one.

Aside from that though, any detailed thought about this shows just how well Apple have planned this thing. They’ve been very clever in releasing it at this point, because now, their giving it to Orange just as the original 24 month contracts on the first iPhone are expiring with o2. That plus Orange lowering iPhone prices to compete with o2 is going to give customers an incentive to jump.

And that means more unit sales. = more profit for Apple.

They’ve also managed to do it just as the *sheen* is wearing off the iPhone, it’s giving it a new lease of life just as it’s sales start to lag. It’s an incredibly well thought out marketing plan, in my eyes.

As it is, I’m considering getting one, because as I mentioned before, I need a new phone, and having played with a friends, I fell in love with the iPhone. I guess the price that Orange releases it at will be the decider for me.

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Blackberry?

September 22, 2009 By George Leave a Comment

I recently damaged my current phone, a Nokia 6220, and have been considering replacements, as it’s just out of Warranty and I didn’t like it that much anyway.

A name that’s come up a lot is Blackberry, they seem to be great phones usability wise, and their great for business purposes (which would be handy to me even if I don’t really run a business), and I actually really like how their designed. pretty

As I don’t really want a full qwerty phone right now, and my hands are a little large for small keys anyway, I was considering buying the Blackberry Pearl, I’m not sure which model yet but the feedback especially for the later models on the internet seems to be very positive, and actually I really like the design.

I’m not 100% on the “reduced qwerty keyboard” it features, but actually I think I could get used to it, I text a huge amount and I can see it being far faster than the current predictive that I use at the moment.

As I’ll get a new phone on my contract about Mid 2010, I don’t see it being worth buying a brand new one, so I was considering a second hand Pearl for use until my new contract phone, at which point I may arrange to have a more recent model if there is one, assuming I like the phone.

I think the only possible downside of buying a Blackberry would be that it’s a primarially business phone, and I use my phone mainly for personal stuff, how well it’d handle however many texts I send a day I don’t know, but I’m planning to give it a try.

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