yep...def beta...

i managed to get a couple of crashes quick...and every time i tried to "forward to a friend" it bombed...

plus you can only seach "today's listings" and...worse, when you choose "time and date" one of the options is "channel" but it doesn't recognize number entry...it's a text field...

yep, def beta...

I also am loathe to give software providers my telephone number, but since this software actually sends text messages to your phone to remind you of shows you want to watch, I figured what the hell. My impressions:

It's OK, but it needs some work. The developers did not make the best use of screen real estate. They could condense the time and date onto the program information row. Also, the channel and station names take up entirely too much space, leaving you with only two half-hour blocks to view. There should be an option to just show one or the other or make them a merged field, since most people are familiar with their local channels. Landscape isn't any better...it just stretches the boxes so the same amount of information is available going across....however, now you can only view four channels at a time. The add at the bottom (Dish network) is also large and obtrusive, but tolerable since this is free software.

Also, the software only seems to download the information needed to fill the screen. So if you want to scroll through channels or look at future programming, it has to reconnect and download more information. Not a major problem and it updates quickly, but it's still annoying to have to wait. And it can take a 15-20 seconds in a non-EVDO area. The crazy part: if you look at it in portrait, the program downloads information for 10 channels, in landscape it only shows four. However, if you scroll down in landscape, it has to download/process to update more channels....the information was already downloaded in portrait mode. How does it lose six channels just going from portrait to landscape?

The show descriptions are good.

The SMS reminders were very problematic. I set them to send an SMS 15 minutes before a show. It sent a reminder on time....BUT IT SENT FIVE OF THEM BACK TO BACK. what's worse, it sent more reminders at the start of the show, which i didn't ask it to. and again, it sent five reminders.

The program has potential but it's clearly beta. I dont' see myself using it much until they straighten these things out. As for giving my number, this is the only software provider who has it, so if I start getting spam texts I know exactly where to look.

That's actually Watson... :-D

"Hmm... How does one get that without giving THEM your phone number"?


Excellent question young Watsom... Excellent question...

-Sherlock Holmes

Hmm... How does one get that without giving THEM your phone number?