Samsung Wave: How to stay organised with combined calendars

June 7, 2010 6:00 am

Categories: Guides Extra Tags: bada, PP, Samsung, wave

The Samsung Wave is one of the best personal organisers you could hope for. It can store reams of info about literally everyone you know, it’s small enough to keep with you from dawn til dusk and with 3G internet it can grab calendar updates online too.

365 days access
With a full calendar on-board, the Samsung Wave lets you organise your life day-by-day, and even year by year if you’re far more organised than we are. The calendar app lets you insert events, picking the day, time and duration – whether it’s a birthday, or just a reminder to go and buy some dog food.

You can remind yourself of these events with alarms too, set on the day, a week before – whatever you like. Birthdays are inputted automatically when they’re added to your friend’s contact details, so you only have to worry about other stuff. Like your cat’s vet appointments and the date your tax disc runs out.

A room with two views
Flicking through a calendar is never going to be much fun – full of too much stuff you should start worrying about, but really don’t want to. That’s why the Samsung Wave offers two widgets to take the sting out of a packed calendar.

Birthdays is a small widget that’ll tell you whose birthday is coming up next. Never again will you have to endure that disappointed look from a friend as you forget their birthday… again. Just make sure you add birthday details to all your contacts listings and Birthdays could quickly become a mainstay of your home screen.

Days is more substantial, and even more useful. It’s a cheery-looking orange widget that’s part-scheduler, part-diary. You can type out a daily schedule, or some notes, for yourself, independent from the calendar, and take a picture to sum up the day. Underneath these “dear diary” schenanigans, Days also displays any events already scheduled-in for the day within the calendar.

Ess-sync-tial viewing
While we think that the Samsung Wave is a more reliable calendar buddy than a desktop PC, or even a laptop, we get that you might not be able to ditch all you other gadgets in favour of it. That’s why the built-in calendar app allows you to sync with your Outlook and Facebook calendars.

It seems like everyone uses Facebook to advertise barbeques and birthday parties these days, so having the ability to link up Facebook events to your Samsung Wave is a must for any outgoing virtual socialyte. The best bit? The Wave’s calendar uses the same event details as Facebook events – date, time, duration – so you won’t miss out on anything. Our Outlook calendars are all filled with meetings, so we’ll give that a miss, but if that’s your bag, the Wave can sync-up with those too.

Pump up your Samsung Wave with all this info and you’ll have the ultimate social socretary to carry around in your pocket. Wave goodbye to forgetting any social events, ever again.

Check out the Samsung Wave in action…

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My experience is that it is currently (at 23 August 2010) NOT possible to sync the Samsung Wave calendar with an Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 calendar using the Samsung-provided Kies software.
Steve-reynolds

Oh No It Doesn't !

I have been trying for three weeks to sync my wave with Outlook. I can sync my contacts but not the Calendar or the Notes.

When I try in Kies, I only have to click on Calendar and it won't let me sync with any Calendar. I get a message: This function is not currently available.

After many hours on the phone to the help desk and 6 or 7 Service Reps. I was told it won't be available for another month.

Perhaps I should have chosen the iPhone after all.

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Samsung Wave: How to stay organised with combined calendars

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