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Is outlook contact and calendar sync a rare feature?
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Posted by: alien476

Hi everyone,

I currently have a samsung i700 with verizon in AZ. Its a good phone, but its size, lack of bluetooth, and lack of tacticle feedback when trying to dial is just really getting to me. At this point, I'd move to another carrier if I can find a phone that would suite me. Perhaps a more knowledgable person on cell phones could point me in the right direction. I dont need that many features on a phone. I'd like for it to be a small phone, (previously had an i600, which was also just big for my tastes), flip preferable, with outlook contact and calendar sync. Touchscreens are OK, as long as there is a slide out keypad of some kind for dialing. Outside of that, extra features would be fluff. I dont need to receive email, play mp3's, take 2mp pictures or view office documents, but any one of those features are nice.

Doing some poking I couldnt find much that fits the needed criteria. Honestly my main problem was that even if a phone had the outlook sync'ing capability, I had to dig for a manual for the phone to find out because it wasn't advertised or listed under its features. Show me the light, guys!

Posted by: DubDub

What carrier provides the best coverage where you use the phone? Do you travel outside the US?

If you stay with Verizon, have you looked at the Moto Q or the Blackberry? Have you looked at the descriptions of the phones they have?

Posted by: alien476

I would say Cingular and Verizon are equally good in the areas I am mostly in. My job very rarely has me travel, but if I do, it is only in the US, never out of the country. I have seen the Blackberry and Moto Q, but they really didn't interest me. Size is a concern for me, and I don't need a full keyboard on my phone. That alone makes those types of devices unattractive to me, although I will admit the Pearl might have a shot. I am obviously open to suggestion though.

Posted by: pr5owner

any PDA phone running Windows Mobile has excelent outlook sync and you have the choice of what sync program you want to use. (excelent partial to the fact the pda phone is running outlook)

all blackberry's are *ok* are syncing to outlook, not as good as pda phones

smart phones are also good since they too are running pocket outlook.

regular featureless phones cant do it because the people that use them dont really want to learn anything new. they dont know what outlook is, they want to manually type in the number.

Posted by: barfoneuser

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Originally Posted by pr5owner

any PDA phone running Windows Mobile has excelent outlook sync and you have the choice of what sync program you want to use. (excelent partial to the fact the pda phone is running outlook)

all blackberry's are *ok* are syncing to outlook, not as good as pda phones

smart phones are also good since they too are running pocket outlook.

regular featureless phones cant do it because the people that use them dont really want to learn anything new. they dont know what outlook is, they want to manually type in the number.

does my phone classify as a featureless phone? It syncs contacts with outlook. maybe I wanted to learn it so bad that my phone magically learned how to sync!

Posted by: pr5owner

in context with the topic of this thread... yes

phone is not capable of push email
the phone is not able to sync with outlook fully, basic contacts (no contact pictures, no ring tones, no birthdays, spouse, anniversary, no extended data, etc, only numbers, email address and maybe a 1 work/home address)
tasks, todo lists, files, emails, etc are not supported
no bluetooth sync
no wifi sync
no hotmail integration or other similar online email/messenger service

syncing isnt just a name and a number (like what motorola thinks it is with their POS software)

for business use, you need ALL the fields sync'd.

Posted by: barfoneuser

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr5owner

in context with the topic of this thread... yes

phone is not capable of push email
the phone is not able to sync with outlook fully, basic contacts (no contact pictures, no ring tones, no birthdays, spouse, anniversary, no extended data, etc, only numbers, email address and maybe a 1 work/home address)
tasks, todo lists, files, emails, etc are not supported
no bluetooth sync
no wifi sync
no hotmail integration or other similar online email/messenger service

syncing isnt just a name and a number (like what motorola thinks it is with their POS software)

for business use, you need ALL the fields sync'd.

birthdays - yes
notes - yes
bluetooth sync - yes
email - no
all contacts info - yes
todo lists - cannot confirm (should be able to with Nokia PC Suite)
calender - cannot confirm (should be able to with Nokia PC Suite)

hey, my nokia isn't a smart phone, but it isn't stupid either.