Bento Application Will Turn Into a Must for the iPhone Users

Released in May this year Bento application came as an easy-to-use management for database (to be synchronized wireless via WiFi) from FileMaker, with 25 built-in templates for personal use or business, added to these a blank template that enabled you to create templates customized at your own will. Bento for iPhone and iPod touch is similar to Mac app in that it is incorporated with Safari, Contacts, Mail, and Google Maps. Recently most users see this application more like a program rather than an application. Without being as sturdy as FileMaker, it still offers enough functionality in that you organize more and prepare less. But being next to a computer, one user can access more rapidly his information, thinking it is much at handy in this way.

But Bento application for iPhones seems to change this approach, since you have everything on you so long as you have your iPhone with you. All your information is there stored under one application. Well, there are other apps available on your iPhone, apps that came included in your unit or that can be downloaded at a cheaper price, so why would you choose Bento? The point is that this app can include your shopping lists, your DVD library, your book that you haven’t finished reading yet as well, all in one things that are part of your everyday program.

Another thing is that you can set up databases directly on the iPhone with your Bento app, considering that you have included those 25 pre-designed templates and in order to create one you can simply tap the “new Library” option and select the template from the “cover flow” mode display. The blank form of a template enables you to conceive a database from zero bases but it looks like a troublesome feature in the process. The capability to customize the templates is satisfying enough in that you manage the feature easier and do not waste too much time. The things look more useful in case you have Bento 2 for the Macintosh, in this way you can switch your editing Bento template in your iPhone to your Mac, trying to synchronize the changes with iPhone.  This switching can be done thanks to the WiFi, not through a dock connector, unfortunately. If you consider that in the future FileMaker will include a Bluetooth option or dock synchronizing, than you’ll be luckier. But you should keep in mind that not everything
from Bento 2 for Mac can be synched with the Bento belonging to your iPhone. The thing is that iPhone keeps those templates that you previously deleted on your Mac, but if you are a tidy person you will work twice to have the things neat.

In time, hopefully, Bento application will turn into a must for the iPhone users, since it can incorporate as much information as you would want to add in your iPhone or iPod, and even it has some flaws they still don’t make the application be less powerful and loaded with abilities.