Get Pocket Informant 2007 for free: 2 days only

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Productivity, Mobile Minute

Get Pocket Informant 2007 for free: 2 days only

by Brad Linder Jan 4th 2008

There are two complaints we've had with Windows Mobile since before the operating system was even called Windows Mobile:

The X button at the top of a screen doesn't close a window, it just minimizes it.
The calendar/contacts/notes applications are horrible.

There are plenty of free third-party add-ons that address the first issue. But if you want a better personal information management suite than the one that comes with Windows Mobile, you're going to have to get out your wallet. Agenda Fusion, Pocket Informant, Agendus, and several other applications are excellent PIM replacements. Each has enhanced search features, a more useful calendar week-view, and better integration of tasks, notes, calendars, and contacts. But each of these applications also costs a few bucks.

Pocket Informant has long been one of our favorites, but the latest version costs a whopping $35. Sure, it's worth it, but if you're on a budget, you might look at the price tag, look at your Smartphone and decide the built-in calendar isn't that bad.

But Jan 4th and 5th you can get Pocket Informant for free. The makers of Pocket Informant have partnered online PDA software retailer MobiHand to give away free copies of the software for the next two days. Just use the code PIFREE at checkout to get your free copy. Be forewarned, when we tried to download the application this morning, MobiHand's site was performing very slowly, but slow and steady wins the race. We were able to download and register Pocket Informant 7. The software should work with all Windows Mobile 2003 and newer devices.

[via AximSite]

Tags: pim, pocket-informant, windows-mobile

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Anthony said 3:05PM on 1-04-2008

either the site don't work, or my company is blocking access to the scripts/shopping cart functionality. clicking on add to cart does nothing, requesting download link by email I click on it and it still does nothing... or have they run out?

Mihir said 4:04PM on 1-04-2008

works fine for me. (12:20 pst)

Stephen Lang said 4:04PM on 1-04-2008

I can't add the app to my cart. I can add everything else though...

Corey said 4:04PM on 1-04-2008

They say PIFREE isn't a valid coupon code

RepoMonkey said 7:54PM on 1-04-2008

Not working here either - add to cart does nothing. Wonder if it's limited to US based customers.

chrisaroz said 8:24PM on 1-04-2008

Got it working, but man what a crappy program. Screens are miniscule and overcrowded. I'm glad this was free or I would be ticked.

Waldemar Wajszczuk said 9:52PM on 1-04-2008

I couldn't add it to my shopping cart when I was using IE7, but I had no problem when using Firefox. Also, make sure you type "PIFREE" in caps. When I first did it in lower case I got the not a valid coupon code.

Tony said 8:31AM on 1-05-2008

Worked, but good thing its free because I'm not sure I'd drop 35 on this.

Corey said 4:40PM on 1-05-2008

My mistake, you must go to Mobihands site to get it to work, not from the link higher up for www.pocketinformant.com

Hope that helps people.

Mikael said 11:01AM on 1-06-2008

Worked for me! Great stuff! Unfortunately the GUI is a bit too small and slow for my tastes :/

JMS said 11:34AM on 1-08-2008

This is only free if you don't consider SMS Spam annoying. I used the "SMS me a link" option and have been receiving 1-2 SMS spam messages ever since. Ok product, terribly annoying results.

Zelidar said 2:57PM on 1-08-2008

Thank you very much for the post and link. After now a few days using it I found it to be a great piece of programming. It is another reason why the Windows Mobile OS is just the beginning, the foundation upon which such smart application can grow up.

I'll have no afterthoughts paying something down the road for the next update.

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