2.4. Section 4 — Calendar Application

• The sophistication of repeat rules seems to be subjective, however some devices don’t support any repeat rules and some devices don’t support “second Tuesday in month” type repeats typically simple (MS Outlook type) functionality seems to be supported

• No-one said alarms can’t be created on their entries

• 67% can’t invite other people to events — only 18% can. Implies almost all phones don’t support Group Scheduling. Indeed, some of the devices that claim to support this only support it in a limited way (e.g. Nokia 9500, 9300)

• ToDos widely supported (83%)

• 67% use Data Sync out of the 87% of phones that support Sync

• Numerous different suggestions for Sync improvement

• Most affecting current behaviour — duplicating entries, slow, poor (or no) interoperability with desktop apps, poor support for recurrence and no support for syncing multiple calendars.

• Automatic sync also requested (e.g. over BT)

• Much comment on Data Sync being a limitation for the device:

• 30% saying it was the main thing they wanted to do that they currently couldn’t do

• 93% of respondents only have one Calendar on their device

• 58% would like to overlay different calendars on top of the existing one

• Respondents wish to be notified of events with functionality (sounds, alerts, vibrate) that are currently available on their devices.