Iphone

Much to the horror of our technical guys I sucummed to the marketing hype and purchased an phone. The in-store experience was a little confusing as I was told I would have to wait for a SIM card to be delivered by post, so imagine my excitement when during the sign up processm I received a confirmation text from O2. Yes, the sign up experience was every bit as slick as you would expect and the touch screen interface is the best I have used so far. But my real aim was to see how it stacked up against our Hosted Exchange service. I have used a number of Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices and I know that the functionally would not be as good. So what you get is synchronization of calender and contacts to your Outlook client via Itunes and mailbox access through something called IMAP.  My main concern was getting all my contacts on to the device, and this worked very well, I have not managed to get my diary across yet but I sure its me not the phone. Email works and synchronizes well and whilst it is not as good as Active sync its effective. So overall hI am happy, especially as the Bluetooth works in my car, Should you get one use as a business tool? there are probably better devices out there, but as a cool multi purpose device that does your email as well then, you could do worse.

Have a Happy Holiday and keep checking back 2008 is going to be a busy year for Cobweb...

Mark

Comments

[Dan Germain]

Hi Mark - how are you finding this as a business phone (dare i say it...) now that the novelity of the iPhone may have worn off?

Does it still function well as a phone and is it usable for email too? Generally these devices struggle to do both well.
Did you manage to get your diary sync'd?