Data base on the iPhone - Page 2 - iPhone 3G

jburkholder · 07-22-2008, 04:56 PM

Yeah, found out it was not for business owners the moment I had to switch my AT&T account from my business to a personal account. My CPA was not too happy with that and paying for the cell ph. account with the business check was an interesting one for my taxes this last year. Another reason why I had to switch back.

I do love what seems to be coming but, it always seems to be coming. Don't get me wrong... I'm almost a converter but there gotta be a few changes before I commit this time.

Thanks for the welcome!

-jeff

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Originally Posted by Kabeyun

Give it time, my friend. The personal user was Apple's initial target demographic, not the business user.

You're aware of the App Store? >500 native apps and counting...

Welcome to EIC.com!

-K

TheLastMohican · 07-28-2008, 10:56 AM

Jeff you are aware that FileMaker has discontinued FMP Mobile alltogether. I take it that is what you are using now on your HTC.

Personally discontuining FMP Mobile and focusing on Web Publushing DB's, i think was one of the worst decisions FileMaker ever made.

Really hope some developer sees this 'hole' and jumps in to make a DB application for the iPhone using SQLite (which is the standard DB Engine on iPhone) that syncs with FileMaker DB's

wildor · 07-28-2008, 11:55 AM

I emailed Dataviz about a month age. They make Smartlist togo, a very powereful database much like Microsoft's Access. They said that they were interested in looking at the iphone SDK to port their software to the iphone. I haven't heard anything from them yet. I will try to get an updated status report tonight. I really miss not having a DB on the iphone.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/index.html

jburkholder · 07-28-2008, 04:19 PM

Dataviz is nice stuff. I use that myself too on my HTC and my old Sony Clie (yeah, have that too). If they made something that would be sweet. But, I'd like to not have to have 4 DB's for my data. A Filemaker hookup sure would be awesome. Did not know that FMmobile was discontinued. That's a bummer.

Though the smartest thing would be some developer doing something within the SQlite... that would be native and if they built a sync to FMpro oh my I'd buy 3 right off the start... one for each of my staff.

Oh yeah....that's my other iPhone gripe...what's up with it having to be a personal phone account? (must be the iTunes lic. stuff). When I did buy the first iPhone my 20 yr long AT&T Business account (think Cell One...Cingular....AT&T. I was customer #13 of Cellular One) had been switched to a Personal account. Which I'm not back hasseling to a biz account. IT's a business mess for accounting and legal stuff in a Corp.

The iPhone's got the guts, power and ability to be the most kick-butt porable computer device, and a personal fun toy too.

TheLastMohican · 07-29-2008, 10:26 PM

Okay, just subscribed to the HanDBase Yahoo group, and surprise (or not, see below) they are working on a version of HanDBase for iPhone.

Looks like a lot of the long-time developers for Palm, Windows Mobile, ... will also start to develop for iPhone. Among other iambic, WebIS, Mobipocket (somewhere at the end of this year, these guys are utterly slow) ... and two other DB producers DataViz (SmartList ToGo) and Ilium Software (ListPro) so DDH Software could stay behind.

Yes my friends these are exciting times

If only my iPhone would arrive now ... ordered July 11th and still nothing to show for it

jburkholder · 07-29-2008, 11:36 PM

That's great news to hear. Hmmm... I think I'll wait till: a) the huge rush on the iPhone is over, b) there's a way to get it to be on my business account not a personal account (need to hassle AT&T on that one).

Though, I'm happy to hear Dataviz is getting involved they had a great hookup to FMpro on the Palm that worked pretty slick. Plus maybe all my DB's I have on my Clie will port over and I'll only have to have one device. ;-)

The phone really should be able to run my live.... I have to listen to it...why can't it help me.

If/when you find out more keep me posted I'd love to hear feedback on it.
-jeff

wildor · 07-30-2008, 07:33 PM

I received an e-mail from Dataviz stating that are going to port Documents togo to iphone, but at this time no plans to port Smartlist togo. Bummer.

jburkholder · 07-30-2008, 07:45 PM

That's kind of a bummer. Amazing the one app/tool that's not available for this large storage, high-power device is a DB...

More I think on it... sure would be awesome if some developer would work off of the SQlite or some migratable DB utilizing it. Someone's gotta be thinking in the same realm we all are.

This is where I wish I was geek enough to know how to build something like this.

TheLastMohican · 08-05-2008, 06:56 PM

Not exactly a FileMaker hookup in the sense that everything's possible, but it's a first step.

Some Swedish developer has developed CSV Touch and what it does is actually very simple, it converts a CSV file in a searchable and sortable DB for the iPhone. So you could export a FileMaker DB (or any DB for that matter) to a CSV file and then import it to the iPhone for offline reference.

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best

MagicMarker · 08-13-2008, 02:21 AM

Try the new FMTouch to work with your FileMaker databases on your iPhone:
http://fmtouch.com/

It's for serious business users and priced accordingly ($69) so it's not for lightweights who whine if an app isn't under $1.99. Also requires advanced versions of FM8 or 9.

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