Thread: N900 in business environment
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2009-09-19 , 19:48
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Hi everybody,
I've got some question about the usage of new Nokia 900 for business. I'm coming from Windows Mobile experience (the worst one, a digital nightmare which I'm anxious to exit ) and I want to understand if Nokia 900 is could be the right choice to replace my old HTC.


Outlook integration
Even if my collegues and I works and deploy applications on linux, or company desktop client are still Windows based so the first question is if at present Maemo/N900 is able to sync Contacts, Calendar, Messages, ToDo and Notes with Outlook. Specially I mean Outlook stand-alone syncronization (not only the Exchange infrastructure). ActiveSync was one of the most buggy program I ever used but I'd like to have for the nokia N900 those features are supposed to offer.
Before fall into the Windows Mobile nightmare I was using Nokia devices syncing data with Outlook using "Nokia PC Suite": that was even worse than ActiveSync! I really hated PC Suite and it was the reason I switched to Pocket PC. One for all:
I was continuosly missing informations. I don't remember details but PC Suite supported a subset of data model so with every sync I was loosing data. (For example, suppose PC Sync is not supporting fieldA: when you sync a contact outlook > nokia on your phone you haven't of course fieldA. When the contact is synced back nokia > outlook, PC Suite destroy the fieldA because he doesn't know it!). So what about syncing Maemo N900 using PC Suite? Will I have the same nightmare?


Mobile Email client
N900 has an impressive internet navigation feature with mozilla but I wasn't able to understand what kind of support it has for email management. Have you got information of email client and how is it powerfull?
Is it possibile to manage multiple accounts via pop3, smtp, imap protocols? Of course I'm not referring to Nokia push notification service, I want to understand how can I manage email directly.

Thank you in advance
handrea
 

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