Advice on which phone to buy to ensure compatability with BCM Colin Foster 3/28/2007 4:44:02 PM Hi There, Just looking at a couple of phones & likewise advice. The first is a Sony 990i. This runs on the Symbian OS, but (apparently) you also get a copy of Exchange ActiveSync installed. Has anyone any experience with using this phone with BCM? The second is a Nokia 9300 (or 9300i). This currently shows compatability up to Outlook 2003 (no comment regarding 2007) Any comments/advice would be useful Regards Colin Foster

Re: Advice on which phone to buy to ensure compatability with BCM "mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com" <u8453[ at ]uwe> 3/28/2007 8:06:59 PM Colin, Although I too love Nokia phones, the Symbian OS platform that it runs on is not very Microsoft friendly to sync with from my experience. Nokia has their PC Suite that their devices synch to. The data can then be synched from that with Outlook. I don't believe that the conduits with Outlook are very feature rich and only basic fields will transfer. I am not even certain that Task items are supported either. I highly doubt that there is any Contact record multi folder synch capability with this. My understanding is somewhat limited however and I may be incorrect because some 3rd party solutions such as Intellisync may be able to rectify this limitation. Your best bet right now for Outlook/BCM sync compatibility seems to be to go with either a Windows Mobile, Palm OS, or Blackberry platform device. Best regards, -THP Colin Foster wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi There, >Just looking at a couple of phones & likewise advice. > >The first is a Sony 990i. This runs on the Symbian OS, but (apparently) you >also get a copy of Exchange ActiveSync installed. Has anyone any experience >with using this phone with BCM? > >The second is a Nokia 9300 (or 9300i). This currently shows compatability up >to Outlook 2003 (no comment regarding 2007) > >Any comments/advice would be useful >Regards >Colin Foster -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/outlook-bcm/200703/1

Re: Advice on which phone to buy to ensure compatability with BCM Colin Foster 3/28/2007 9:02:05 PM Thanks for this, Tim, This, unfortunately, is what I was coming to the conclusion on, but I thought that I would check for wiser heads than mine :-) Also, just for your info, BCM doesn't (at th emoment) sync with Blackberry Regards Colin "mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Colin, > > Although I too love Nokia phones, the Symbian OS platform that it runs on is > not very Microsoft friendly to sync with from my experience. Nokia has their > PC Suite that their devices synch to. The data can then be synched from that > with Outlook. I don't believe that the conduits with Outlook are very > feature rich and only basic fields will transfer. I am not even certain that > Task items are supported either. I highly doubt that there is any Contact > record multi folder synch capability with this. My understanding is somewhat > limited however and I may be incorrect because some 3rd party solutions such > as Intellisync may be able to rectify this limitation. Your best bet right > now for Outlook/BCM sync compatibility seems to be to go with either a > Windows Mobile, Palm OS, or Blackberry platform device. > > Best regards, > > -THP > > > > > Colin Foster wrote: > >Hi There, > >Just looking at a couple of phones & likewise advice. > > > >The first is a Sony 990i. This runs on the Symbian OS, but (apparently) you > >also get a copy of Exchange ActiveSync installed. Has anyone any experience > >with using this phone with BCM? > > > >The second is a Nokia 9300 (or 9300i). This currently shows compatability up > >to Outlook 2003 (no comment regarding 2007) > > > >Any comments/advice would be useful > >Regards > >Colin Foster > > -- > Message posted via OfficeKB.com > http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/outlook-bcm/200703/1 > >