PDA and GPS advice and info

[ducasi]

Originally Posted by philsmove

My G 3 card seems to take ages to connect
Or wont connect at all

3G coverage still seems pretty patchy on the edge of Bristol

I know someone using one around & between Glasgow and Edinburgh. I guess the coverage must be better here... :shrug:

Originally Posted by philsmove

I’ve had my P900 for over a year and as combined phone and organiser it’s great

I don’t use the camera I need 6 mega whatnots at least

Or the music player, I use an I pod

Nor do I use the e-mail

The great thing is it synchronises with Outlook on my desk top

My SE K700 has a camera I hardly use, as it's only VGA and doesn't have a flash, it has a MP3 player and a radio that I don't use, though I hardly use my iPod either. As I said, I don't much use the email it gives too.

It does have a calendar that synchronises with my Mac, and presumably if I had the misfortune to have to use Outlook, would work with that too.

It's also much smaller than most smart phones...

Do many people use the "smart" aspect of smart phones?

[Clive Long]

Originally Posted by Clive Long

Hi,

I am working up to justifying to myself to buy an all-in-one phone-handsfree-mobile-email-webbrowser-GPS-make-the-tea jobby. When I mentioned this idea to DJ he snorted (in that DJ way) and said "convergent mobile technology? pah! a compromise that fails on all accounts" (or words to that effect).
<< blah blah blah >>
Thanks

CRL

Not quite made the decision yet (procrastination raised to an art-form).

Is it possible to "tag" calender entries as either "Personal" or "business"? So that when I enter a new appointment in either PC Outlook or PDA Outlook only the appointments tagged "business" are synchronised between the devices, and the "personal" appointments remain on the PDA?

Can Pocket Outlook sync the calender with the "home" Exchange Server over the "phone channel" rather than "through" the PC?



Thanks

Clive

[WittyBird]

Originally Posted by Clive Long

Not quite made the decision yet (procrastination raised to an art-form).

Is it possible to "tag" calender entries as either "Personal" or "business"? So that when I enter a new appointment in either PC Outlook or PDA Outlook only the appointments tagged "business" are synchronised between the devices, and the "personal" appointments remain on the PDA?

Can Pocket Outlook sync the calender with the "home" Exchange Server over the "phone channel" rather than "through" the PC?

To try and answer..........

You can't tag appointments.
You can mark them as private, so any third party who is looking at the calendar will not see the appointments
unless they have full mailbox access - when they can see everything.

With a Windows Mobile 5.0 device and an Exchange 2003 / Windows 2003 server, configured correctly, you can sync over the air. JasJar does this
but you can only sync email, contacts, calendar and tasks.

Get a Windows Mobile 5.0 based device and the same information applies - whether it is in a PDA format like JasJar, or something like the new HTC Star Trek phone, which is a clamshell.

The Star Trek is new not released yet
Have a look here

Or knock yourself out Here

Think that answers your questions

[WittyBird]

Also what you could do is try the emulator
it is an application that you can run on your desktop that emulates the Windows Mobile 5.0 device

Have a look here

[Gojive]

Originally Posted by WittyBird

To try and answer..........

You can't tag appointments.

What you can do though, is assign a category to an appointment. Then in Activesync, under the options for Calendar, you can choose which categories you want to sync with the PDA (same goes for contacts etc). I think that'll work?

I'm sure as well, that you can sync over Wi-Fi if you're using ActiveSync 4.0 or greater. Apparently, this facility was withdrawn by MS due to a security concern. I've stuck with 3.8, and that does allow you 'air sync' though.

[WittyBird]

Originally Posted by Gojive

I'm sure as well, that you can sync over Wi-Fi if you're using ActiveSync 4.0 or greater. Apparently, this facility was withdrawn by MS due to a security concern. I've stuck with 3.8, and that does allow you 'air sync' though.

No....

The ability to sync over the air to a desktop was removed in AS 4.0.
That doesn't affect the ability to sync over the air to Exchange though.
There is no category control, That maybe something available in the desktop version of ActiveSync, but isn't in the Exchange ActiveSync.

[Gojive]

Originally Posted by WittyBird

No....

The ability to sync over the air to a desktop was removed in AS 4.0.

Ooops, typo! I meant can't

That doesn't affect the ability to sync over the air to Exchange though.

Ah right - I don't use ES, I just sync with Outlook on the PC

There is no category control, That maybe something available in the desktop version of ActiveSync, but isn't in the Exchange ActiveSync.

Yep - definately on the desktop version.

I didn't realise there was another version of AS. It all becomes clear now

Ta WB

[WittyBird]

Originally Posted by Gojive

Ta WB

Your welcome
I'm not a geek really

[Lou]

Originally Posted by WittyBird

The Star Trek is new not released yet
Have a look here

Or knock yourself out Here

Ta WB!

Both *so* cute! I get to change phones in July, and I'm glad there's lots of lovely new windows mobile ones to choose from. I'll never be lured to a Symbian one. Never! (Of course, that's assuming that my current phone stays with me all the way through this BFG.... )

[Clive Long]

Originally Posted by WittyBird

To try and answer..........

You can't tag appointments.
You can mark them as private, so any third party who is looking at the calendar will not see the appointments
unless they have full mailbox access - when they can see everything.

With a Windows Mobile 5.0 device and an Exchange 2003 / Windows 2003 server, configured correctly, you can sync over the air. JasJar does this
but you can only sync email, contacts, calendar and tasks.

Get a Windows Mobile 5.0 based device and the same information applies - whether it is in a PDA format like JasJar, or something like the new HTC Star Trek phone, which is a clamshell.

The Star Trek is new not released yet
Have a look here

Or knock yourself out Here

Think that answers your questions

I rarely quote answers in full, but I would like to publicly acknowledge the impact this response has had on my life.

Previously I used to put milk in my tea after pouring the tea. No more! I have also freed myself from thinking that Outlook will solve world hunger.

So .... and Witty the Wise.

Is that enough?

Clive

[WittyBird]

Originally Posted by Clive Long

I would like to publicly acknowledge the impact this response has had on my life.

Previously I used to put milk in my tea after pouring the tea. No more! I have also freed myself from thinking that Outlook will solve world hunger.

So .... and Witty the Wise.

You sarky f***er