[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] SYCHRONISING WM5 TO A MAC - SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

[David W Sica]

I have been using 4smartphone.net for about 3 weeks now with my WM5 PPC-6700
and have been quite satisfied with their offerings.  I have the cheapest
XPRESS account and have verified with 4smartphone that you do NOT need the
PRO account to use Entourage.  Here's a quote from then:

"Yes, Entourage 2004 uses WebDav to connect to the servers and this is
available in the Xpress Plan"

I highly recommend the service especially if you have a Mac and want to have
access to your phone/PDA data from your Mac.

David


> From: Sten Feldman <exile at chamber.ee>
> Reply-To: <exile at chamber.ee>, The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile Discussion
> List <missing-sync-winmobile-talk at lists.markspace.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:43:59 -0000
> To: <missing-sync-winmobile-talk at lists.markspace.com>
> Subject: [missing-sync-winmobile-talk] SYCHRONISING WM5 TO A MAC - SOMETHING
> THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
> 
> 
> This is in response to Simon Hicks posting on the issue of 4smartphone.com
> service.
> 
> I have been reading this forum for some time now, hoping for the beta release
> of
> MissingSync that would work with WM5. During that time there has been also
> discussions on alternatives. I have tried serveral things and can also say
> that
> 4smartphone.net seems to be the only way to get WM5 somehow synced with Mac.
> Still there should be some reservations taken concirng that service.
> 
> 4smartphone.com is an Exchange service, I am not sure do you need PRO account
> to
> be able to sync Entourage with the service as entourage uses the web access to
> sync with Exchange and doesn't support all the features that Outlook 2003 has
> in
> MS Windows.
> 
> Still you get a 15-day free trial to test if this solution works with you.
> 
> Syncing the mobile phone with the service is easy enough and step-by-step
> instructions are given. Also entourage syncing works nicely
> 
> Once that is done and you have installed the laters Entourage updates, you can
> enable the sync services support in Entourage making the phonebook data and
> calendar data available also to Address Book and iCal
> 
> If you don't use any grouping functionality then this is probably enough for
> you
> and works great. Whatever you change in iCal appears to Entourage ang gets
> synced with 4smartphone.com service. And from there you can sync it to your
> mobile phone.
> 
> What is dissapointing with this service, is that you don't get your TASKS
> synced. This simply because Entourage does not support Exchange tasks.
> 
> Anyhow as many has reported 4smartphone.com is an alternative solution and as
> Entourage now support Sync Services then you can still use your favorite
> iCal/Addressbook and time to time open Entourage so that the changes made will
> get synced to Exchange server and from there to you PDA/Smartphone.
> 
> The solution is good but not great as you will not have tasks and you will
> lose
> the ability to use grouping as iCal will only sync "Entourage" named calendar
> with Entourage.
> 
> Anyways, I suggest people who are eagerly waiting for MissingSync to try out
> the
> 15-day trial to see if the service suits their needs.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sten
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