Thread: The N800 _MUST_ have a good PIM to succeed
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mbrinkhues is offline mbrinkhues
2007-02-22 , 14:42
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#71
Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Outlook is always mentioned, but it should be said though that Outlook itself is horrible when it comes to synching contacts. Outlook can't import vcards properly, it can only import one contact at the time. This is totally useless for corporate users, and Outlook 2007 still hasn't fixed this. Outlook shouldn't be considered the measure stick by far.
And yet, between them Outlook and Notes have 80+ percent of the market in date planning/contact apps. Sure, Outlook can't do VCards very well but most WinCE PDA's don't use VCards for Sync. And unless the N800 can replace a WinCE PDA, it will remain a rather small market segment and risks loosing customers to the new large screen WinCE PDA like the Sharp unit.

A lot of people don't care about "It's a Unix" or "It follows official standards" stuff. That includes software engineers like me. The metering stick is "It works in my Windows-Based company net/infrastructure". The thing is a tool, not the center of my life. If it can't do the job, I won't buy it/use it.

OTHO I am willing to back a resonable sum for a working USB-Sync between an On-Unit, Offline-capabel PIM and my desktop system that does not involv any external service centers/computers or Web-Servers. Actually I think that commercial software is the ONLY chance to get such a solution, not putting much faith in OSS interacting with commercial standards.