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Posted by Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile on May 8, 2007, 10:04 am
Please log in for more thread options You are talking about two different kinds of tasks:
'Home/long press' - tasks running at the device (programs)
Tasks (from the menu) - parallel to tasks in Outlook, or To-do items.
I hope this makes it clear.
Helio
>
>> Does anyone know if the Tasks application on the Samsung Blackjack is
>> crippled some how, or is its severely limited functionality by design?
>>
>> About all I've been able to do (on the phone itself, that is) is to
>> create new tasks and mark them completed. As far as I can tell you can't
>> edit an existing task, nor assign a start/end date or priority to a task,
>> though the Task application's menu "suggests" that tasks can be sorted
>> and filtered by priority, start date and end date.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is Blackjack's / WM5 - Smartphone Edition
>> Tasks application missing something?
>
> To test my new Blackjack, I opened the Blackjack manual; followed the
> 'Home/long press' to obtain the list. The Blackjack provides a list of
> running tasks which I think of as applications. I just sent my 8525 to a
> programmer for tests today so can't verify, but normally my 'task list' on
> the Mobile 5 PPC is a to-do list that can be edited.
>
> I'd suggest you check the Microsoft Mobile 5/6 URL to determine what
> >should< happen. I can't determine if it's a Mobile 5 implementation of
> >PPC
> vs Smartphone, or Samsung vs HTC.
>
> PS- "Isn't this interesting Ollie?": page 167 of the Blackjack manual
> lists 'tasks' in Organizer as a to-do list. But on my Blackjack the long
> press of the Home key produces a list of running applications they call
> 'tasks'. Same word; two meanings. That's like the Blackjack keys that do
> two things depending on short or long press.
>
> Duplicity of terms and functions: it's like being married!
>
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