Comments on: Bento iPhone Review: Databases to Go

By: SouthWind81

SouthWind81 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:35:59 +0000

What language will you use? ,

By: John15

John15 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:33:01 +0000

? How do they look themselves in the mirror? ,

By: ewan21

ewan21 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:42:49 +0000

I’m fairly sure you can edit the fields:

http://img.skitch.com/20090614-qdrf8yxhkpjickjiw1w3qxwche.jpg

By: Loweded Wookie

Loweded Wookie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:14:36 +0000

I have to say that Bento for iPhone is 100% perfect for my needs.

I have a reasonably complex database that I use for my job updates which includes relational fields, calculation fields, and all sorts of other fields and my input has been drastically reduced even from using desktop Bento.

I don’t care about security or cross platform so Bento is a much better app for me. Also FileMaker Pro kind of annoys the hell out of me with it’s really bad interface. You get the feeling it is a Windows app ported to the Mac rather than a company that is a subsidiary of Apple.

By: Edward McNeil

Edward McNeil — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:23:39 +0000

That is one of the reasons I did not go with iPhone for Bento and I went with FMTouch. The data is not protected or encrypted. I read an article that said that nearly 8 million people lose or have their phone stolen every year. So it does not make sense to put important information in a database that cannot be protected.

Bento is great for non sensitive stuff, but not really for a business that want’s to have their expenses, their client lists, medical records etc..

The other part is – it does not work cross platform and whether we like it or not, 80% + of the workforce still uses PC’s.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:19:56 +0000

bento for ipod touch is a very good app.
I only dont know, if i can protect the database, for example the account database?