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« on: November 13, 2009, 09:31:53 AM »
Why is the Location field missing from calendar events?

I use Bitpim to pull in my events from Outlook 2003. But I have noticed this morning that once the events are in the Touch, there is no location field for me to see where the event/meeting is being held. I even tried to add an event only using the Touch and there is no event field. This is very frustrating as my company has many different meeting rooms and its important for me to know where I need to go. Is this something that has been left out of the design? What workarounds have others found? I would put the location in the Subject field, but it has a character limit. I checked Bitpim, and the location is being brought over from Outlook, it's just not going to....or being displayed on the Touch.
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2009, 11:37:10 AM »
I was never able to set locations for my calender events. Maybe they just didn't think consumers would use that feature as much as some do? If there is a location, I usually just put that in the title of the event, since there's no "note" field either. I'm not sure what the character limit is for the title, but I usually know what I'm doing at that certain place on that certain day. =S Maybe you could make your notepad equally as accessible as your calender and keep locations in there? Good luck in getting that all figured out.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2009, 07:51:30 AM »
Thank you, esoryma. I have tried putting the Location in the Subject field, but I always run into the character limit. It's no big deal to not have a location when I'm at my desk, but when I've been away from my desk all day then have a meeting to go to and I haven't been able to check Outlook for the location...it's frustrating not to have it.

I'll come up with something. DANG LG!  laugh
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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2009, 08:33:12 AM »
This has been a problem with feature-phones for years.  Every time i've got a new phone I've hoped that they would have added it, but they never do.  If you talk to a Verizon rep (assuming they even understand what you're talking about) they will say that you need a smartphone.
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2009, 08:37:38 AM »
HA! I don't need a smartphone, I need a phone that is thought through. This calendar feature is silly. By them not going one extra step and putting in the Location field is like me driving to the Grand Canyon and pulling up to the edge and never getting out of my truck.

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« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2009, 10:54:48 AM »
Actually, you do need a smartphone for that feature.  It's not that they didn't take that one extra step to add the location field.  It's that they took the extra steps to add what functionality you DO have in the calendar and that's where it stopped.  Everybody has their one little thing that "makes no sense that they left it out".  If every phone company made sure that "one little thing" for everyone was covered, there would ONLY be smartphones.  Multimedia phones like the Touch are never meant to function as a pda-like device.  What pda functionality you do have is a bonus and should be looked at as such.
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2009, 07:57:13 PM »
Fortunately for most of us who do want more and more, it seems that the old school pda and the simple dumphone are careening towards a beefier happy medium.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2009, 11:38:33 AM »
Quote from: e-T on November 16, 2009, 10:54:48 AM
Actually, you do need a smartphone for that feature.  It's not that they didn't take that one extra step to add the location field.  It's that they took the extra steps to add what functionality you DO have in the calendar and that's where it stopped.  Everybody has their one little thing that "makes no sense that they left it out".  If every phone company made sure that "one little thing" for everyone was covered, there would ONLY be smartphones.  Multimedia phones like the Touch are never meant to function as a pda-like device.  What pda functionality you do have is a bonus and should be looked at as such.

But you, see....I really don't need a smartphone. Why? Because I don't need all the features a smartphone has. I wanted a cool touch screen phone and a full keyboard either on screen or flip...and I got both. I also needed a decent camera. And get this, I may be the only person in the world that has a touch and does not surf the web on the phone. I don't watch movies on it, and I don't listen to music on it.

No matter how you say it, something was left off, and would have only taken another 30 minutes...if that to add the code to include a location.

My old HP pocket PC has everything I need, but is not a phone.....thus why it stays in my desk drawer.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2009, 08:36:30 PM »
You completely ignored my point.  A fully detailed calendar app is standard only on smartphones. I was pointing out that you should be happy with the calendar functionality that you have.  Where would you have them draw the line? Everyone has a single feature that could have been added (with relative simplicity for LG/VZW) to make their phone relatively perfect but, again, if they took that approach, there would ONLY be smartphones.
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« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2009, 05:11:47 PM »
The beauty of demand and supply is that if enough people ask for a feature, eventually they'll get it.

The notion that full blown calendar apps can't be used outside of smartphones is most certainly on the way out.  Blame the blurring lines between smart and dumb phones or the fact that newer technologies allow dumb phones to do more and more.

It's only a matter of time folks, so don't stress about it.


EDIT:  With more cloud based applications, a "dumb" phone is quickly approaching the ability to support full-featured applications from the net.  Therefore the notion that certain features would be dumb in a dumbphone is going away.
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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2009, 09:11:51 AM »
Quote from: e-T on November 17, 2009, 08:36:30 PM
You completely ignored my point.  A fully detailed calendar app is standard only on smartphones. I was pointing out that you should be happy with the calendar functionality that you have.  Where would you have them draw the line? Everyone has a single feature that could have been added (with relative simplicity for LG/VZW) to make their phone relatively perfect but, again, if they took that approach, there would ONLY be smartphones.

Agree to disagree.

I still don't see the point of offering a calendar option on a cell phone and only think it is for people to add birthdays or keep up with what day it is.

Quote from: RJT185 on November 18, 2009, 05:11:47 PM
The beauty of demand and supply is that if enough people ask for a feature, eventually they'll get it.

The notion that full blown calendar apps is most certainly on the way out.  Blame the blurring lines between smart and dumb phones or the fact that newer technologies allow dumb phones to do more and more.

It's only a matter of time folks, so don't stress about it.

I agree with paragraph 1 and 3, but 2 leave me a little confused. It's as if something was left out of the first sentence in paragraph 2.
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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2009, 08:31:04 PM »
Yeah.  My bad.  I'll go ahead and edit it to improve my grammar and sentence building.  And I agree wholeheartedly ... sometimes people just need to agree to disagree.
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« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2009, 03:30:54 PM »
Quote from: RJT185 on November 19, 2009, 08:31:04 PM
Yeah.  My bad.  I'll go ahead and edit it to improve my grammar and sentence building.  And I agree wholeheartedly ... sometimes people just need to agree to disagree.

Yeah, I see that happening also. I guess for use that want to leave the internet attached to a computer will just have to get with the times.  laugh
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