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User Submitted Sharp OZ-290HII Pen Touch Wizard Organizer with Outlook Sync Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-09-17 hard to use After hours of trying everything in the manual, online and customer support I am still unbale to link this device to my computer. Without Outlook one cannot view a schedule, you can only set an alarm. Not very useful to a busy mom. I was really looking for a way to keep up my calendar. It is nice looking and I am sure if I could link it it may even be a good electronic calendar. I guess the bottom line is - you get what you pay for...I will try to unload mine at a garage sale Date: 2007-07-29 Sharp Organizer The screen is hard to see in many daylight conditions and the screen backlight does not help. In expense mode your memo has to be very brief. There are way to many steps to learn to us this in various modes. I had a Sharp yo 370 with a keyboard for 12 years until it went bad and liked very much. No comparison in ease of use between the two and the info you could enter in expense mode. I will be looking for a keyboard organizer again soon. Date: 2007-07-25 Worth Every Bit of the Money I have used this organizer for 2-3 years to store and back up my contacts and it worked great. The other day it stopped working after I changed the batteries. I had ignored the low battery messsage for a while - maybe that was my mistake. But I had backed up the data to MS Outlook before I changed the batteries - phewwww! Synchronizing with Outlook is not the easiest but it works. Since I did not want to mix the Sharp data with my Outlook address book (which is mostly for email addresses), I created another address book in Outlook. The software will synch only with the main address book, so I had to copy the main AB to another folder before I synched the data to Outlook and then copy out the Sharp data to another folder and return the main address book to the "Contacts" folder. Because I want to look up names by the first name, I store the first and last name in the last name field. Now I need to buy something else and want to find a cell phone that allows me to synch the data to my PC. The problem with that is the cell phone would have to have a reasonable keyboard. I refuse to enter names on a number pad. With the Sharp 290 - I used the touch screen keyboard without any trouble. Can anyone recommend a cheap cell phone that has a keyboard that is not much money? I am also considering the Sharp 590 organizer for $38. Date: 2007-06-14 XLNT Organizer if You Manage Your Expectations Folks...this is an inexpensive organizer that gets the job done ! It is NOT a: Palm Pilot Treo Jornada Pocket PC That being said, it is excellent for what it does and what it costs. I used to carry little pocket notebooks until they wore out and had to transfer all of the data by hand to another one. Ugh! Graduated to a Sharp YO-600 that I dearly loved. It died. I went to another Sharp OZ-650 which to me was awesome back in the day. The benefit of a full QWERTY keyboard cannot be overstated. The Intelli-synch sw was a wonder and really enjoyable. It translated ALL of the data from the OZ to a laptop program and back. It died and is out of stock. Enter the OZ-290HII. It has most of the functionality of the older organizers and is a different interface. I have started to like the stylus method of data entry. Yes the navigation is not intuitive and No it does not have all of the functions of the big boys but it Works! Now...the Outlook Synch...Great when it works. The caveat is that the defect is on the Outlook side. It will not transfer Expenses nor the Dietary data. And...it is devilishly simple to set up. Really ! Frustrating at first until you know the Secret: Here it is: When installing the software and connecting to the unit, follow the instructions Exactly. Now the simplest dumbest thing will still prevent proper synching if you are not careful. The Cable tip going to the Organizer must go ALL THE WAY in the unit. Push till it just clicks and is flush with the unit. After that...piece o cake. I installed this thing 6 times till I broke down and called Sharp. They know about the Holy Grail and once I push it all the way in....Bingo! I think it is a good value for the money for a bare bones organizer that sits unobtrusively on your belt. No I don't work for Sharp. For the money...buy it...don't like it...reset it and give to the wife or your student child. Date: 2007-03-12 Hard to use, user instructions are not easy to read I bought this to replace an older sharp organizer. I liked the old one a lot, but the lines of resoluations were starting to disappear so I order another sharp. The style is different from my old one, this one has a stylus. The new one is hard to use, the display is hard to read and the user instructions tend to leave out some major details which case some frustrations with trying to set up the organizer. I had to call Sharp and they even told me some of the insturction manuals for this model were incomplete. I will keep it only because I need something to put all my phone numbers into. But I don't see this becoming something I will use everyday.
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