Sharp Wizard OZ-590 Review - Organizer Software
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Lets get started on the functions, shall we?
I thought I'd start off by showing you what the Backlight button shown on the previous page does. I chose to do this because one of the major downfalls of this particular pocket organizer is that without the backlight on it is very difficult to see in any lighting condition except for a very bright office (which in all fairness is probably where this will be used a lot of the time). However, with the light on it is very visible. One thing that should be noted is that the default setting for the light will make it go off after only 10 seconds of inactivity; if you go into the settings menu, you can change that to 20 and 30 seconds. Also in this picture, notice that the title is "Home Clock" and it says "U.S.A. New York." If you click (tap?) on the word "Home Clock," a drop down menu appears, and you can set one of 3 alarms, set a timer, or switch to world clock, which can tell you the time difference between your home time and the time in 98 other cities in different countries througout the world. I live in the midwest, but there is no Chicago (or L.A. for that matter) to represent some of the other timezones here in the U.S. I guess we're not important enough.
One note about the timer is that even if you have the unit turned off, when timer runs out it will display "Timer!" and will beep repeatedly until you push one of the buttons, or wait about 30 seconds.
These are the two main menus. That's right, two main menus. It's not like you can use the "Up"/"Down" arrow buttons to travel from one set of targets to the other. No, that would be too simple. Here you are supposed to just know that you need to hit the main menu shortcut button, located in the bottom left corner, a second time after your already on the main menu screen. I found this out quite by accident, and not until after being thoroughly upset that they lied about the inclusion of games, which, by the way, ended up sucking anyway. You get a slot machine type game which isn't too terrible, but (A) during the slots spinning action and when you win it makes the same annoying high-pitched beeping that makes you want to jam pencils in your ears and break them off, and (B) it doesn't save the winnings you have accumulated. The last is simply unforgivable. I mean, what is the point of winning all that loot if you can't show it off later? The other game you older folks may recognize as the Atari™ game Breakout®, called Brick Attack. The problem is that it doesn't work so well here. The ball either moves too slow to make it any fun or too fast for the little bar to have any chance at all of catching up to it.
Sharp also gives you a metric converter, a currency converter (which I still haven't figured out completely), and an easy to use English to Spanish (or Spanish to English) translator with thousands of words.
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