We've had several customers ask when Intervals might be available for mobile devices, such as cell phones, blackberries, and the iphone. It's a much-desired feature, especially considering the amount of time we spend away from our computers. It would be ideal to have a mobile version of Intervals that allows you to start and stop timers while you are out in the field, updating your timesheet as you wait to catch a plane, or running a quick financial report in the middle of a client meeting; the uses of a mobile Intervals are infinite.
At Pelago, we use a combination of devices; Windows Mobile on Cingular 8125s, iPhones, and Blackberries. So which mobile devices do you use? Tell us what you think about a mobile Intervals; we'll be taking your ideas and input into consideration when we begin developing.
A mobile version would be great; creating tasks on location, and manage timers when away. We use Mindows Mobile, Palm & Symbian / UIQ3. I think a web based mobile version would work best for us. As platform independent as possible.
On a related note, I'd love to be able to email an event to the system, e.g. that I've switched to a different activity. This would require defining a simple syntax, of course. But at my desktop that would be even easier that it already is; and it could let me submit task changes as TXT.
It would even be useful if all I could do is text myself random notes, which the system might hold onto until I get online and can process them. Anything that reduces load on my memory is good!
Some of our customers are telling us that Intervals works well on the iphone. Our first priority is to build widgets for time tracking and task management for the desktop. Those will probably be portable to a PDA as well. We'll keep you posted.
We use the iPhone throughout the company. I've been tinkering with Intervals through the Safari browser on the iPhone and it's a bit small but it does work quite well. An actual app that works with the iPhone would be genius.
I tried using intervals on my iPhone last night and had Safari crash on me twice :(, thus I would love a mobile version, be it a version of the site customised for phones or an iPhone app (the latter preferred).