BCM SYNC TO WINDOWS MOBILE jstan 4/10/2007 4:56:01 PM I have recently acquired a Treo 700wx. As probably everybody else knows, you cannot sync your BCM contacts to these (stupid) smart phones. Does anyone know when this will be possible? I really don't want to spend $50 for Pocket Mirror.

RE: BCM SYNC TO WINDOWS MOBILE Samvnw51 4/10/2007 7:48:01 PM according to the BM team blog the next version of the BCM for WM5 is coming "very soon". It may include a version for WM5 smartphone edition. "jstan" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have recently acquired a Treo 700wx. As probably everybody else knows, you > cannot sync your BCM contacts to these (stupid) smart phones. Does anyone > know when this will be possible? I really don't want to spend $50 for Pocket > Mirror.

RE: BCM SYNC TO WINDOWS MOBILE "mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com" <u8453[ at ]uwe> 4/10/2007 9:26:33 PM jstan, I am not so sure that it is the smart phones that are stupid. BCM's limited design feature set has been lagging in this ability for far too many years. It is almost like the designers think the BCM contact data base only needs to be a stand alone, lonely isolated island unto itself with no relating to it from the outside world. A word of caution. I have not examined the (currently beta) next version of BCM for WM5 but I believe that it syncs your BCM contact data into an entirely separate application on the handheld for viewing and editing only. The ability to quick look up and dial or to have the Contact info appear as a caller ID was still not a functioning feature. This omission is truly "stupid" and not the fault of the mobile device. To compare apples to apples make a note that the Chapura Pocket Mirror Professional solution syncs ALL of your various Outlook and BCM contacts into the SAME (only 1) place on the handheld device. The dialing, lookup, and caller ID works uniformly on the device for ALL synced contacts from both the native Outlook pst AND from the BCM Business Contact folder. The only other next hassle I foresee is whether or not by the time this BCM for WM is released ("soon") it will support WM6 in addition to WM5. WM6 is now the current version that new WM devices sold will be using in 2007. Hopefully, there will be a proactive coordination of this by MS. If past history is any judge however, it will likely take the Redmond bureaucracy another year to not anticipate and respond to this reactively with their next WM sync solution release. -THP Samvnw51 wrote: [Quoted Text] >according to the BM team blog the next version of the BCM for WM5 is coming >"very soon". It may include a version for WM5 smartphone edition. > >> I have recently acquired a Treo 700wx. As probably everybody else knows, you >> cannot sync your BCM contacts to these (stupid) smart phones. Does anyone >> know when this will be possible? I really don't want to spend $50 for Pocket >> Mirror. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/outlook-bcm/200704/1