ehlps you to keep track of people and places you are supposed to be
Disadvantages:
remember to take it with you
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Having decided to end my days as a stick in the mud, who avoided mobile phones and computers like the plague I recently added to my collection of ‘gadgets’ a personal organiser. Ok so that is not such a shocking revelation to most people, but for me it was a pretty big step!
Many people will wonder why I felt the need to buy one of these, basically computerised address books. Well the answer is I am a bit scatterbrained at times (no comments please!), and useless at writing down addresses and phone numbers and so on. Now this didn’t pose a problem really as for phone numbers I had my mobile phone, and most people I know are on the Internet – so I didn’t really need their home address.
When I started my job as a community nurse, 3 years ago, I found myself needing to know a whole host of phone numbers. Many of these were in my phone, but as my phone only held 99 numbers I found I had many of them written in my work diary, on different pages or on scraps of disappearing paper. In addition to this I found myself spending a couple of days each year, transferring said numbers into my new diary. Why not get an ordinary address book? Well the answer to that is, many numbers change, an extra book to write things in is also a pain, pages get torn and another book is a pain to carry around and can get left behind etc. So I decided to splash some cash and buy a personal organiser.
The Zeon tech is a pretty smart looking item with its silvery grey finish. When closed it is almost 5 inches in length and 3 inches in width and a slimline half an inch in depth – so easily fits into my uniform pocket, Jeans pocket or handbag without being intrusive.
On opening the organiser you see a numeric keypad on the upper right hand corner, the on off buttons, the scroll keys and the light button. There is also a handy reference guide on the lid – showing all the main functions of the organiser. On the upper left hand side of the organiser is the display screen, which holds a 3-line display. The main body of the organiser is taken up with the ‘keyboard’ using the standard ‘qwertyuiop’ layout. The buttons are of good size, half a centimetre in width and height, so many organisers focus on the overall size that the buttons have to be pressed with a pen or something similar. This is not the case with the Zeon tech.
The functions of the Zeon Tech include:
Telephone – this is split into 2 options, either personal or business. This option is very handy for the usage I want, as I can keep all my work related phone numbers separate from personal ones, thus saving time when wanting to contacting someone. You can operate a ‘secret’ function for the telephone numbers – which will require a password to be entered to view the contents. This is handy for me at work, as I am able to password protect all work phone numbers. It would also be handy for those having affairs! Lol Along with the telephone numbers you can add, addresses, a second phone number such as a mobile number, email address and URL. To search the telephone directory is simple – either scroll through the names, or type in the first letter of, or all the name required. You can add 7000 names and addresses – this should be more than adequate for the biggest party animals!
Schedule/memo – as it suggests you can add your schedule in this section, along with birthday reminders. You can even set up an alarm to alert you that you have missed someone’s birthday/anniversary! I usually input the birthday etc 2 days in advance – so that this doesn’t happen! I tend not to use the memo part but you can input 36 characters.
Conversions & calculator – again the name gives away these functions. The organiser will convert the currency of your choice – handy for when I am off on my travels again! Also metric conversions. Plus the calculator – well it calculates!
There is also the availability to set up world and home times on the organiser – handy if your contacts or family and friends are overseas. Plus an alarm function for those morning after the night befores – I personally don’t use the alarm function – not that I don’t have to get up early, but I find it difficult to switch off in those wee small stupid o’clock hours, when the brain isn’t quite functioning!
Games – not only do mobile phones have games – so do personal organisers! There are 2 games on this particular organiser – the lottery game, you can set up to 99 numbers in the draw, then choose your 6. Then 6 random numbers will be generated. That about sums that game up, not very exciting, not least as you don’t actually win anything! The second game is slightly more interesting, although rather less challenging for those with good keyboard skills. It is very similar to the ‘Simon’ game of old, where you have to copy the numbers and letters flashed on the screen. The skill level goes up to 20 – and is very fast and very difficult – endless fun (!)
All in all I have found the organiser to be an essential part of my everyday and working life. It goes everywhere with me and I with it. It is simple to operate, easy to carry around and at £14.99 (Argos) a bargain price. The organiser takes 2 CR2025 lithium batteries that come supplied with the organiser; I will update this op as and when I require new ones.
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