Persoonlijke PocketDay/Beroeps
Versie: 4.25
Het schatten: (In afwachting van Volledig Overzicht) Gestemd Verblijf
Verbinding: www.pocketday.com
Verbinding OTA: www.pocketday.com/ota.htm
Desktop: www.pocketday.com/downloads.htm
Kosten: $19.95 (Persoonlijk) / $34.95 (Beroeps)
Verenigbaarheid: Gedacht ben ik trots om te zeggen dat het voer van BerryReview RSS van HTML vrij is maar maar toch toont de lezer van PocketDay RSS geen beelden. You do have the option to open the RSS feed in the browser and use RIM’s browser RSS reader but I find that defeats the purpose of the one in PocketDay. In each article you have the option to open the article in the browser or send a link of the article to a friend. I did not find an option to save the article as I have seen in other readers.

The configuration of the RSS feeds in PocketDay is a bit cumbersome. As you can see above they do have a menu option to add a RSS feed from a list but when I click it nothing happens. I did find that I can choose to add a custom RSS feed but then I need to know the direct URL for the RSS feed, redirects of the feed do not work. The nice part is that the reader does offer you functionality I have not seen elsewhere. They let you set on a feed by feed basis how often you want it to update. They also give you a secondary option to set it to update at a specific time every day. They also give you the option to set how many of the posts are shown on the today page and if the feed is shown on the today page at all. Another nice feature is the ability to sort your RSS feeds in a specific order and also set them up in categories. All in all I think the RSS is a added bonus but I would not purchase the Pro version just for RSS support.

Currency Converter: This is the best currency converter that I have ever seen on a BlackBerry. I would definitely recommend the Pro version to anybody who travels just for this feature. The currency converter includes every currency I have ever heard of and many I have not. Who has ever heard of the Tanzanian Shilling? The beauty of this application is that you select the currencies you wish to convert and then you enter the amount and select the menu button “Get Current Rate” and there you have the conversion. My only question would be for the financial savvy readers to confirm that the rates are correct since I know there are different sell and buy rates including a median rate.

Conclusion: I find the world clock and the currency converters to be perfect reasons to upgrade to the Pro version. My only hesitation is the RSS reader that I found could have been better rounded out. I am sure the developers at PocketDay will read this review and start working on a new version of the RSS reader to better compete with what the competition is giving out for free. Stay tuned for the final chapter of this lengthy review where we will cover the major strong point of PocketDay. We will cover just how amazingly configurable this software can be and why that can either be a good and bad part of the software.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 and is filed under Email, Internet, News, RSS, Reviews, Utilities.

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