I have read that since Android is open source the possibility of an easy sync application to work with Outlook and Microsoft exchange server.
How likely is this?
I am interested in the phone but not if I can't access my Outlook at work.
Confirmed with T-Mobile yesterday that the new G1 will NOT support Outlook or Exchange Sync.
I can only assume that as it only supports google mail, google must be underwriting this entire thing as WHO in their right mind is going to want a phone, even at $179, that does NOT support the most used email program in the world?
I can't buy this phone..........
It does now! www.wrike.com/g1-exchange-sync.html A simple tool, but it's FREE!
The Wrike and Intermedia look to be more than familiar with email apps.
There is only support for Contacts, no email.
Yeah, sorry.
However, as far as I know you can use Exchange email account successfully via IMAP. I'm going to try it, as I already pre-ordered the phone and I need this Exchange syncing feature badly.
BTW, the guys who develoed the app I told you about plan to introduce a calendar syncing feature too. I read about it in some blog. Was it Gizmodo? I'm not sure.
Simple. CompanionLink will sync Outlook contacts, calendar and tasks with your Google account. Once in Google, it will wirelessly sync with your G1.
http://www.companionlink.com/android
T-Mobile G1 (Android) users can bidirectionally and continuously synchronize their email, contacts, and calendar data between Exchange/Outlook, Gmail/Google Apps, and their G1 phones, using Cemaphore’s MailShadow for Google Apps (MailShadowG) which is available now at www.cemaphore.com for $29.95/year/user. It synchronizes all Calendar data, the selected date-range of email data, plus all contacts. It installs on the Outlook 2003/2007 desktop/laptop and runs in the background, synchronizing the Outlook local cache (OST file) with Google/Gmail. It even lets the Outlook user send email from within Outlook through Gmail, even if the Exchange server is down. G1 users see all their corporate Exchange email, contacts, and calendar information right on the smartphone, synched in real-time.
John Liccione
CTO Cemaphore Systems
I just visited their site. It is now $49.95, not $29.95
So what you're saying is that I can pay $30 a year for the privilege of having all my confidential corporate email become searchable by Google?
Thanks for making us aware of this app - at least now I know it's out there so I can make sure my users are blocked from it.
Methods like ActiveSync using SSL at least provide a small degree of protection when syncing this data from the server to a handheld device. Using an intermediary server that is outside of our control completely defeats the purpose of attempting to protect this data.
I don't want google involved in my corporate data either. My treo used to just plug into my USB, and whamo, sync everything right over the "old-fashioned" USB cable. No 3rd party involved at all.
Please tell me you've found a similar solution for the G1!!!!!!
What Google doesn’t tell us is that Google Calendar and other programs on the PC makes your outlook calendar public and this is a big no-no in a corporate setting.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9016920/Corporate_data_slips_out_via_Google_Calendar
Plus Google is known to sue companies whose employees install “free” software on corporate machines. So can we really trust them on Google Calendar? Not likely.
Bottom line: The Google Android outlook application should sync the calendar like it does email. I can’t believe some of what Google left out on Android G1. It’s enough to make me go back to blackberry or check into an iphone. It’s that bad.
A company named moonrug (www.moonrug.com)is doing beta testing on an app that will sync with exchange, not sure if it only works with OWA or not, but it will auto sync email and they have added calandar support, they are working on contact info, and hopefully the ability to view attachments.
Well, I should qualify...there is an app called Work Email that will sync with outlook if your exchange server supports webmail. My corporate system does have exchange webmail and I get all my emial on the G1. But contacts and Calendar are a different story. I can't believe their webmail app doesn't do at least calendar. Blackberry would do it using webmail. Tsk...Tsk....Google...this is a BIG problem!!!
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