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| Do you have or want Push Email? |
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Kris Kumar
Contributing Editor
Joined: 02 Jul 2003
Posts: 4267
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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| sojourner753 wrote: |
| My phone is buzzing for task reminders, buzzing for meeting reminders, and buzzing for email. Plus, people can hear it. |
Same here. The vibration is so powerful and so loud that it is a big distraction in a meeting.
Is there a way to reduce the duration of the vibration? Right now it is pretty long, at least for me it seems like it is long.
Regarding the push email. It rocks. It has had a noticeable impact on my 2125. I have to charge it every day and half, previously I could get two days easily. But as Jerry mentioned, I love the fact that my Smartphone gets the email even before my desktop. 
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Janak Parekh
Rogue Pocket PC Thoughts Editor
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 306
Location: New York, NY
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Jerry Raia wrote: |
| You might be happy to know that there is now category support. I'm running the beta of office and you can assign categories to notes. Categories in the new office now have colors you can assign to them. When you assign a category to the note, it becomes that color. |
Only marginally so -- let's see if this is ever implemented in WM.
--janak
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Janak Parekh
Rogue Pocket PC Thoughts Editor
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 306
Location: New York, NY
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Kris Kumar wrote: |
| sojourner753 wrote: |
| My phone is buzzing for task reminders, buzzing for meeting reminders, and buzzing for email. Plus, people can hear it. |
Same here. The vibration is so powerful and so loud that it is a big distraction in a meeting.
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 The loudness of the vibration is, of course, a function of the device.
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| Is there a way to reduce the duration of the vibration? Right now it is pretty long, at least for me it seems like it is long. |
The Treo's is pretty short, and I use that strategically. If I'm in a meeting, I'll ignore short buzzes and only pull out the unit for a long buzz (i.e. ring). Does this mean I don't immediately check reminders? Actually, yes, that's sometimes true. I'll pay that price, though, for the benefits.
Also, in Pocket PC, if you don't want to be buzzed every time an email comes in, turn off the device while you're in the Messaging applet with your Inbox open -- new email notifications will then not fire. Not sure if you can utilize the same trick on Smartphone.
--janak
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ctmagnus
Smartphone Theorist
Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 298
Location: Golden, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a pain, but even more so is the lack of file sync to an Exchange Server. If we had even that, I could replace Notes easily with Pocket Word, PhatNotes, etc. |
PhatPad? PhatNotes still uses a (third-party) database to sync, not file-level synchronization.
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ctmagnus
Smartphone Theorist
Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 298
Location: Golden, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Kris Kumar wrote: |
| Is there a way to reduce the duration of the vibration? Right now it is pretty long, at least for me it seems like it is long. |
I read on xda-developers of a registry hack to change the ring/vibration pattern/duration. But that was for Pocket PCs; I don't know if it will work on Smartphones.
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Janak Parekh
Rogue Pocket PC Thoughts Editor
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
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Location: New York, NY
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| ctmagnus wrote: |
| PhatPad? PhatNotes still uses a (third-party) database to sync, not file-level synchronization. |
Er, yes. PhatPad. 
--janak
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rkdiddy
Smartphone Pupil
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject: Help setting up push... |
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Can someone post a link of where I should point my IT people to enable push on our corporate emails. I sent in a request and they let me know that currently they only support the blackberry enterprise software. I would like to be able to point them to an informational site of what needs to be done with our exchange server to set this up.
I should have my i320 in a few days and I would like to get it set-up.
Thanks, Rick
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T-Will
Smartphone Intellectual
Joined: 08 Aug 2003
Posts: 132
Location: Sacramento, Kalifornia
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Is there any way to get a Smartphone to sync both PIM and files without ever docking with a PC (after the initial Activesync setup)?
Just so I'm clear, hosted Exchange syncs everything except notes?
Does a hosted Exchange account allow you to copy your current desktop calendar to the server during initial setup?
Finally, is it possible to use hosted Exchange with a Gmail account and keep emails in sync?
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Janak Parekh
Rogue Pocket PC Thoughts Editor
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 306
Location: New York, NY
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Help setting up push... |
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| Can someone post a link of where I should point my IT people to enable push on our corporate emails. I sent in a request and they let me know that currently they only support the blackberry enterprise software. I would like to be able to point them to an informational site of what needs to be done with our exchange server to set this up. |
It's more accurate to say it should work if they haven't turned it off. Exchange ActiveSync is supported out-of-the-box in Exchange 2003, and Direct Push is automatically enabled with SP2. However, firewall settings may need to be tweaked, and Googling should provide some resources, such as this one .
The biggest issue is getting HTTPS set up in Exchange, which is the preferred Exchange ActiveSync protocol. If it's not already set up, they may be reluctant to invest the manpower to do it (even though it's straightforward once you know how to do it).
--janak
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Janak Parekh
Rogue Pocket PC Thoughts Editor
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
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Location: New York, NY
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| T-Will wrote: |
| Is there any way to get a Smartphone to sync both PIM and files without ever docking with a PC (after the initial Activesync setup)? |
Do you mean physical dock? Of course, you can do all of it over Bluetooth.
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| Just so I'm clear, hosted Exchange syncs everything except notes? |
All PIM items except Notes. To be precise, Exchange ActiveSync with WM5 and newer supports four sync types: email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. That's it. No files, no notes, no custom conduits.
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| Does a hosted Exchange account allow you to copy your current desktop calendar to the server during initial setup? |
Once you set up Outlook with an Exchange Server, it should appear as a separate mailbox, to which items can be dragged.
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| Finally, is it possible to use hosted Exchange with a Gmail account and keep emails in sync? |
I don't think so. You can forward Gmail to the Exchange mailbox, but it is its own email service.
--janak
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