Re: Blackberry & Exchange

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He has Verizon. Would you recommend the 700 over the 650 if it is avainable
to him???

Thank you very much I really do appreciate the input from people that have
actually been there.

BoboTWG

"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To add something else, I am a Sprint reseller as well as a SBS. I use and
> configure most of my clients with the TREO 650 using Palm platform. This
> is
> great for Calendar and email synchroniztion with Exchange over the phone's
> internet connection. It will only sync Calendar and your root Inbox, not
> other folders. Contacts and Tasks still need to be sync'd through the
> Hotsync cable or Bluetooth. Versamail which is what runs Exchange
> Activesync
> freezes up on me somewhat frequently and with my clients as well, having
> to
> wipe out the Calendar and Inbox and re-download everything. This is part
> of
> the problem with a Palm Based hybrd synchronization to Exchange.
>
> I tested Sprint's PPC-6700 with Windows Mobile 5.00 on it. I found the
> PDA
> portion of the device to be slow and could barely get through 2 hours of
> talk
> time without needing to recharge. It was also difficult to lookup phone
> numbers and dial with a single hand without having the QWERTY keyboard
> like
> the 650 does. With this phone you need to flip it to landscape and expose
> the keybopard which is time consuming. The Exchange Activesync works
> great
> here though and sync's everything, Calendar, Inbox, Contacts and Tasks all
> wirelessly and on the EVDO network (highspeed). Overall though, I didn't
> like this as an integrated device and I went back to the 650 until Sprint
> comes out with the 700.
>
> I tested Verizon's TREO 700W and found it almost as easy to use as the
> TREO
> 650 and much faster between screens than the PPC-6700. Only drawback is
> that
> it is only on Verizon at the moment, Sprint won't be releasing until end
> of
> QTR 1 2006. The screen resolution is also lower than the TREO 650 so
> pictures and documents don't look as crisp. It is this way so that it can
> run a Windows OS from what I understand.
>
> You can get great deals on the TREO 650 from all of the providers and it
> is
> real simple to use. So, not to be on the bleeding edge of technology, I
> would recommend the TREO 650.
>
> "BoboTWG" wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for the info. I did not know much of that. Really
>> making
>> a point to go the way I want. Thank you again very much.
>>
>> BoboTWG
>>
>> "Leonid S. Knyshov" <lknyshov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:7KqdnbiczdFrv0zenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > "BoboTWG" <bobotwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:iv8Af.13502$PL5.12164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> The boss asked me to check out the Treo650 and was getting all exited.
>> >> I
>> >> checked out the posts here and did the whole web research and called
>> >> Palm
>> >> and thought that it would be the way to go.
>> >>
>> >> Now he says he thought that it looked like crap in person. Now he
>> >> wants a
>> >> Blackberry. By looking at the site and callin the sales rep it looks
>> >> like
>> >> I have to load their Blackberry Enterprise Server. I really don't want
>> >> to
>> >> add more junk to the server and am wondering why they can't make it
>> >> work
>> >> like the other vendors. Does anyone have any experience with
>> >> Blackberry's
>> >> and SBS2003 Premium (using exchange and self authorized certificate)?
>> >> Thank you very much.
>> >>
>> >> Also, anything that uses the Pocket PC OS with that cut down Outlook
>> >> should work pretty easy too, right?
>> >>
>> >
>> > BES is a tricky animal.
>> >
>> > Blackberry will not support it on SBS. They unequivocally require a
>> > dedicated server and based on my experience with it, for a very good
>> > reason as well - they like to require server reboots, for example...
>> >
>> > BES is easy to work with, but they will not support running ESM from
>> > Service Pack 2, for example. Really, there are quite a few rather
>> > bizarre
>> > requirements.
>> >
>> > We work as a reseller with RIM, Good, and Microsoft to support all
>> > three
>> > solutions.
>> >
>> > At this point of time, I would recommend Windows Mobile over the
>> > proprietary solutions because the functionality gap is just about gone.
>> > --
>> > Leonid S. Knyshov, CEO
>> > Crashproof Solutions, LLC - http://www.crashproofsolutions.com
>> > MCP Exchange 2003/Small Business Server 2003, CCNA, SCSA 8
>> > Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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