Pocket Informant 8 (FREE upgrade if purchsed after 09/01/2007)

02840 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 08:57 AM

If you purchased Pocket Informant 2007 after September 1, 2007 then your upgrade to Pocket Informant 8 should be free.

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Pocket Informant 8 Upgrade Schedule

* FREE: Any Purchased Version On or After September 1 2007
* $16.95: Purchased Before Apr 1 2006
* $16.95: Received as a free promotion or prize
* $16.95: Retail Boxed Copies
* $16.95: Franklin Covey PPO
* $16.95: HP hx4700/4705 5.04 version Upgrade

Use the link directly to the WebIS site: http://webis.net/products_info.php?p...tab_id=upgrade

You can enter either your registered email address or the activation code from PI 2007. You can then select either the touch screen or non-touch screen version for the upgrade.

(This includes those who took advantage of the free offer for Pocket Informant 2007 last week.) - Sorry, this info seems to be incorrect. If I had read my own quote above it does exclude "free promotion or prize". What's weird though is that it still let me upgrade. My apologies for the originally misleading information.

New in PI 8

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Pocket Informant 8 New Features

* Smartphone Support! Now brings near feature parity to the Smartphone!
* Events View Mark any task or appointment to be tracked and see how many days away it is. Track Birthdays, Anniversaries, Project Milestones, Vacations, and more!
* Journal View View your journal by date or by its parent. Log your calls or meeting notes. Track billable hours. See all your journals in one easy convenient view!
* Automatic Links Insert a contact name or phone number in the subject of a task or appointment and when you go to view it, they become clickable links!
* Scalable User Interface Choose between 5 different user interface roles from "Pocket Outlook with Benefits", through task or appointment focused roles, and up to "Power User" to quickly configure Pocket Informant to your needs and only show the menus, dialogs, and actions you want to see
* 100% One Handed Interface Due to having one application for both Smartphone and Pocket PC devices, Pocket Informant 8 works fully in one handed mode. This shows up in all the dialogs, menus, and many other aspects of Pocket Informant including the completely redesigned main menus
* Franklin Covey We've added support for Mission, Goals, and Compass/Roles
* Filmstrip mode Designed especially for Landscape devices, the Month Filmstrip mode makes using the Month View far more productive
* Incoming Call Journal Turn on the Incoming Call Journal and whenever an incoming phone call comes a new Journal will popup
* Smoother Scrolling and Touch Finger scrolling and a Touch ABC side bar for Contacts
* Many more! There are many new features all over the place in Pocket Informant 8 - try it out to see for yourself!

http://webis.net/products_info.php?p...ab_id=features

remlle · #2 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 09:26 AM

wouldnt give it to me for free only gave me a 13.00 discount. and I got it during the free 2 days.

02840 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by remlle

wouldnt give it to me for free only gave me a 13.00 discount. and I got it during the free 2 days.

Hmmm...
Here's the screen I got after entering the auth code from the free version of 2007

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You are eligible for a FREE upgrade to Pocket Informant 8
Pocket Informant 8 is separately licensed for one either (non-Touch Screen) Smartphone or (Touch Screen) Pocket PC. Please choose an edition to upgrade to:

Pocket PC (Touch Screen devices) Upgrades:

1. Receive free upgrade to Pocket Informant 8 for Pocket PC
2. Need Help Identifying your device?

Smartphone (No Touch Screen devices) Upgrades:

1. Receive free upgrade to Pocket Informant for Smartphones (No Touch Screen)
2. Need Help Identifying your device?

Didn't have any problems getting a new registration code but since there's no CAB file (seems to offer only an EXE download) I can't install until later today to test it out.

redifrogger · #4 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 10:43 AM

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wouldnt give it to me for free only gave me a 13.00 discount. and I got it during the free 2 days.

Same here - did this both yesterday and today - only gives $13 discount.

**syrguy1969** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 10:56 AM

Same thing for me, I know I got this after September '07, but all I can get to is the discount screen, not free upgrade!

jaydubya12 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 11:04 AM

Ditto here. Only $13 off.

02840 · #7 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 11:20 AM

Updated original post regarding "free promotion or prize". Sorry for the incorrect information. Guess one cup of coffee in the morning just isn't enough any more...

TMB_XV6700 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 11:39 AM

I trialed this version yesterday - Definitely a big improvement. The touch-scrolling is sweet, but be careful opening contacts with it. I accidentally dialed about 6 or 8 people while just (I thought) looking at their contact record. There are good discussion forums for the software over at WebIS, so I won't talk about bugs here.
A patched version should be out within a few weeks according to their forum.

On pricing, I personally think $16.95 is a very good deal for this upgrade. I don't think I could have upgraded to 2007 (from 2005) for that price before the freebie promotion last month.

**syrguy1969** · #9 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 02840

Updated original post regarding "free promotion or prize". Sorry for the incorrect information. Guess one cup of coffee in the morning just isn't enough any more...

No worries....I'm no good until that second or third.....pot of coffee is gone!!!!

thomlanphear · #10 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 03:20 PM

I also got the free version however when I entered my information it said I was eligible for the free upgrade and gave me a new key. I downloaded the trial version entered the new key and now it is working. So if you at least got the key just download the trial and enter that key and it should work.