Donka's iPhone Rambles

Lately I have been experimenting with the iPod Touch as a replacement for my Windows Mobile Pocket PC. I am now at a place where my Pocket PC does all I need but I fear for the future of the Pocket PC platform as focus is put more on smartphones. I also really like the interface of the Touch and think it has the makings of a very good PDA. Of course such a transition is unlikely to go smoothly and while a lot of the big players from the Windows Mobile arena are starting to develop their products for the iPhone / Touch, there are still a lot of inevitable gaps. My three must haves for my PDA are Calendar, Contacts and a password repository. The first two are catered for out of the box and thankfully my favourite wallet application - eWallet, is now available with ListPro to follow which is another great application. Where things are not so rosy however concern the calendar and alarms; both functional but the current calendar application lacks a search function which I consider a big omission. Alarms do the job but it seems there is no auto off so I'm unsure as of yet if a missed alarm will continue to sound until the battery dies - I suspect it will unfortunately. Pocket Informant is in the works which is a fantastic application but due to me not mixing business data on my personal device, it is simply overkill for my needs. I'm hopeful someone will release a search solution for the calendar which will greatly increase its appeal as a PDA replacement.

Now don't get me started on the lack of demo software in iTunes....