Jacqui Cheng over at Ars Technica is pretty excited about Google Calendar for mobile phones, a service you can get to with a standard Gmail account by visiting calendar.google.com from your phone or PDA. What did she like?
• Events are displayed in a "small-screen friendly list format"
•Clicking on event shows details, and even has map links, which she finds "helpful when I'm out and about"
• Main calendar page displays next 10 events "no matter when they occur...over a period of two days or three weeks"
• Users add entries via phone by typing simple text: "1pm brunch Sunday" is smartly interpreted and entered into both mobile cal and online Google cal "more or less instantly"
Cheng did complain about the lack of alerts, but
according to Google, you can set up SMS notification for your calendar entries regardless of whether or not you're running the mobile
software. She did not mention what phone she used for the test, or even which phones are or are not supported.
Is it as sweet as Cheng says, or is she just drinking the Google-Aid? If you've already tried it, please fill us in. – Wilson Rothman
译文:
生活中运用Google：点评Google Calendar （结论：值得一试）
Ars
Technica 的 Jacqui Cheng 对于手机拥有Google Calendar功能，感到非常激动，你可以在你的手机或是PDA上使用Gmail帐号来访问calendar.google.com网站。那她喜欢的是什么呢？
所有事情都会“以列表的形式在小屏幕上显示出来”
点击可以了解活动的详细情况，它还有个地图链接，“在我外出时”也可以轻松找到我
日历主页显示将要举行的10个活动，“不管他们什么时候举行……可能是两天也可能是三个星期”
用户可以键入简单文本：“周日1点早午餐”，它会被放入手机日历和在线Google日历中
Cheng抱怨过没有提醒功能，但是根据Google，你可以设置短信息提醒，不用去管是否运行手机软件。她没有提及她用来测试的是什么手机，也许有些手机支持，而有些不支持。
真的如Cheng所说的那样好吗，还是她拿了Google的好处？如果你已经试过了，那就告诉我们吧。–
Wilson Rothman