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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Windows Mobile. Outlook on the move
When you are in business these days, deciding on the best electronic device to have in your pocket is not easy. Do you go for a Blackberry, or perhaps you upgrade your phone, or perhaps there is a better option?
Well maybe there is.
For 18 months now I've been using an I-MATE K-JAM ( I've now got my eye on this one, which looks even better http://www.htc.com/product/03-products-2.htm) phone. This little device pretty much gives me the entire contents of my Microsoft Outlook seamlessly synchronised with my office, meaning I get my e-mail pushed, my office calendar, tasks and all importantly my contacts.
The fact that my contacts and my mobile telephone are integrated means that I have a full qwerty for my texts, oh what a joy! I have Word, Excel, Skype, browsing, Onenote with handwriting recognition and even Media player for MP3 and video.
And the icing on the cake, is that we didnt have to Spend over two and a half thousand pounds on the Blackberry server software, all the functionality we needed, is built into the Microsoft Exchange 2003 software thats already running on our server. All we had to do was configure the software and get the phone!
For those that want to take the functionality of their Windows Mobile PDA that bit further, there's an incredible array of extras including a TomTom addon.
In a nutshell we think its the nearest thing you will get to having your Windows XP laptop in your pocket.
