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External link: HanDBase for S60 3rd Edition
A few screenshots of HanDBase 4.0 running on my E90, by the way:
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What I really want from HanDBase is an emulation of the good old Psion Data application.
With security would be even better.
Mike Jones
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Main uses for HandBase:
1. Notebook for 'everything' - works as well as the search function.
2. Encrypted repository for passwords, PINs, and other confidential
personal, work-related, etc. data.
3. Comics, book and TV series: book/episode trivia like release date,
writer, director, drawer, main characters (allies and antagonists),
location, synopsis, even concordance.
Aarne Rantala
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"To make most use of the gym workout, I like to log the number of sets and
weight used per workout. Easy to see if I am making progress on a smartphone
in a pocket!"
Rhett Hurmer
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Using a database application like HanDBase on my smartphone (a “simple” E50 by the way) would have several interesting advantages. Allow me to focus on a business perspective. My guess is most people entering this competition of yours will focus on music and movie libraries.
An average business man has at least 500 contacts (family, friends, clients, suppliers, prospects, leads, whatever…), some even a few thousand. Storing those in the standard Contacts on the phone is an option, but not the best. Personally, I like to keep the Contacts application “clean”. Only family, friends, real clients and suppliers are in Contacts. In my case, that adds up to about 150 entries. Manageable.
The rest of all those names, addresses and numbers is preferably managed in another way. HanDBase could be an option. It should allow to group them easily. Added bonus is contact history, if it could be synced with a CRM application.
I’m keen to try out this application. I might even update you on how well (or bad) its usability is from a business perspective.
Joris De Sutter
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Winner!
I use my E90 to track the distribution of wildlife in a nature reserve here in South Africa. The E90’s GPS creates a track log which I then match via time-stamp to photographs. This data is stored in a spreadsheet, but a database would be much more powerful.
Mark Strathmore
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Beeing a taxidriver in the northern part of sweden I would use the
database to keep track of the customers riding on a dayly basis. From
where, to where and when. It would sure beat the little notebook i'm
using currently.
Magnus Bengtsson
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I'm a laptop/desktop mini reviewer for Best Buy. I get the machines, review them, send them back on a particular date to a particular manufacturer. A HanDBase copy would basically help me keep a track of new shipments that arrive, when they arrived, when to send them back, when to review them and which storage room they are in etc. That's basically what I'd use it for.
John Saad
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Love to be able to use a database to keep track of my childrens
activities. The activities are varied resulting in a databse that
needs to be powerful enough to cater for strange categories.
Gavin
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Winner!
Here's a database application I'd like to have on my N95. I've tried
covering some of the functionality using Projekt, but there are limits to
what can be done with that program. I would imagine a more specialized app
could be made with HandDBase.
Planning app for small catering business:
Tables: Events, Customers, Menus, Dishes, Ingredients, Shopping, Vendors...
Show upcoming events. Deal pending/settled. How many to cook for. What are
they having. Which ingredients are needed. Generate shopping list for one
or more events at a time. Record mileage. And so on.
Klaus Seidenfaden
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owning hundreds of dvds I can't all remember, a db on the go will stop me buying copies of dvds I already have and make my wife happy
Wolf Cocklin
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I would use it to store/organise ham radio/ amateur radio callsigns and repeater information, which have area relationships and also amatuer band frequncy spectrum and local band plans. All of these can be interlinked or indidvidual, depending on the need. This may tend to be a voluminous database! Also to catalogue my militaria collectables and medals.
MARK KARAM
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As a modest collector of New Orleans jazz recordings it would be invaluable to have details of the existing collection on my smartphone. Before buying another tape, disc or CD I could check if I already have many of the tracks on it and on which media.
Ted Cross
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I would mainly use it for these things:
1. Movie database of all currently owned DivX, DVD and other titles
2. List of all currently installed and/or owned phone and pc apps, with version numbers, date installed, and links to the companies site for future updates and/or downloads
Eugene
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here's my databases:
contact lists for corporate and clients
Personal reference stuff like vehicle maintenance.
Technical reference like ASCII code tables, resistor color code
charts, serial port pinouts
The "interesting" thing I want to do is be able to carry offline copies of large corporate databases with me. We've got databases of thousands of pieces of equipment that I would like to be able to carry around in my pocket.
David Smoot
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As an extension to RSPB Birdwatching scheme I intend using HanDbase on
a GPS equipped smartphone for monitoring impact of environmental
factors on ornithological population in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
John Walker
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I'd use HanDBase to collect and manage data for my football results project. I need a portable db to allow me to capture events during football games that I can then import into my Django web application.
Simon Murphy
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I used to have smallbase on nokia s80 (n9500 and n9210) and worked with following databases (very important was to have full on device support - in fact i dont have a computer with me all the time):
1 - credit card usage with details
2 - i cycle and keep my diary with a db application
3 - my job requires to sign documents - i keep track of the ones i signed with help of db application
At all cases support to export the database to txt files is needed.
Enrico Binder
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I miss my database from my PSION 3a and 7 and would use it on my N95 for internal phone lists, beta tester contact details, bug lists, my daughter's class list, wedding anniversary lists (what is the modern and traditional present for 10 years? I need to know), logins and passwords (encrypted of course), DVB Service and transmitter information in the UK and anything else that doesn't fit into a note.
Kieron Edwards
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Here are the sorts of things I'd like to track in a database on my mobile:
1. Grocery Lists
2. Movies to See/Rent
3. Books to Purchase/Borrow from Library
4. Movie Library
5. Book Library
6. Password Vault
7. Recipes
8. Wine Library
9. Home Inventory
Paul Medeiros
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I'm currently using an N82 as my main smartphone, but I have so many other phones and gadgets - in two homes on different continents - that I'd need a mobile database just to keep track of all of them and their associated accessories, e.g. chargers.
Raymond
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I want to be able to store notes or unstructured data that I make
wherever I am, be it notes on a wine tasting, a piece of music I heard,
or items for my shopping list.
But as importantly I want to categorise and search this data and have
the option to push/pull data from my PC.
Vincent Migue
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Winner!
My work 5 times a year is to stay in guard with police cases about people with mental problems that are found in street or somewhere in critical situations. So I must stay in stand-by 24 hs a day about 30 days without interruption. So , in that times I must carry a database with all police departments, police stations, army stations, coast guard and all other force corp. and phones about hospitals and ambulances to ask for interventionin case I need it to resolve the mental case.
Also, each case that Im asked to take intervention, I must take note of, date, force, name of theperson, situation presented, and what I have to oorder to resolve it, this happend where Im, ate work, in street, kayaking, where else. That is and active database that once i finish the 30 days is converted to xls to work with it in advance.
Actually first with an E61, and now with my E90 Im using DBViewer Plus, because I cant wait HandBase to be released since I left Palm OS (where i use HandBase) and go to Symbian, in that time hanbase not work on 3rd ed., so here my uses forthis nice app and very usefull for y job.
My best regards and sorry, my english is not so good.
Diego Villar
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Home environment improvement reality check! I'll give it a month for
starters - keeping track of who vacuums, cooks, does the dishes, does the
laundry, etc in our household of two adults and two children. Also, how
often did the boys do their home work, make their beds, clean their rooms
and do the extra chores (like taking out garbage)?
Allowances will be handed out accordingly, credit given where due and all
arguing about who does the most at home will end!
Ulf Glemme
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I would use it HanDBase for interaction management recording who I interacted with, date time, summery of interaction, status and due date for action items.
Eitan Gal
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I would use it for keeping track of my daily job as consultant relating
tasks, projects and clients, measuring time spent in each task and
exporting data in a format suitable for invoicing. I would also relate
tasks with other databases (say, task X used inventory item Z).
Ariel