> Norm,
>
> It depends upon EXACTLY what you mean by "Smartphone."
>
> MS Windows Mobile 5.0 has 2 editions: The full Pocket PC Phone edition
> (touchscreen) and the Smartphone edition (non touchscreen). If your smart
> device hardware is running the WM 5 Pocket PC edition you are in luck and BCM
> has conduits available for your device to synch with. If your smart device
> hardware is running the WM 5 Smartphone edition you cannot sych with BCM
> without using a 3rd party tool from Chapura called Pocket Mirror Professional
> for Windows Mobile. Go to www.chapura.com to learn more.
>
> An additional note to avoid confusion: With their newest upcoming WM 6
> release, MS is renaming the editions to WM Professional (for Pocket PC Phones)
> , WM Standard (for Smartphones), and WM Classic (for non phone PDAs). This
> will hopefully reduce confusion between what a specific hardware device is
> referred to and the software it runs on.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -THP
>
>
>
> Norm wrote:
> >I've been reading a lot of the posts about sync problems with BCM and Smart
> >Phones. I'm a little unsure if these problems have been resolved with 2007.
> >Based on my experience, I think not.
> >
> >I'm new to BCM and am just evaluating it. Some things look nice, but one
> >thing will stop me dead and cause me to drop it right away -- if I can not
> >sync BCM contacts with my Smart phone.
> >
> >Information and contact is absolutely vital in business, and to have a CRM
> >and not be able to take those contacts on the road with your Smart phone is,
> >well, brain dead.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me if there is a way to sync BCM with Smart phone? If not,
> >I'm dropping BCM really quick and not proceeding with any further eval.
>
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