Posted on 11/03/2010 12:36:56 PM PDT by PackerBoy
Thanks for any help on this. It's time to upgrade my (Verizon) cell phone and I am trying to find out if any of the new Droid phones (or any other new Verizon phone, for that matter) can sync with Microsoft Outlook.
My Palm Treo 755P has served me well for 3 years, but apparently things are changing at Veriizon and I soon will no longer be able to use it for syncing.
If you mean to be asking whether it syncs with an Exchange server, my Droid X does fine.
Can't figure out why and have not felt like calling my ATT Customer Service.
That’s the reason I didn’t get a Droid. I liked it, but it was not useful for business.
Maybe it’s improved, but if so, I haven’t heard about it.
I’m not on Verizon but my HTC Hero with Android syncs (over the air) with our Exchange Server at work with no problems. I get mail, calendar, contacts, the works.
There is also a PC app (from HTC) that I use to sync via USB to MS Outlook on my computer at home. It gives me the granularity to choose what I want to sync - usually just contacts and calendar.
My HTC Evo (Sprint) connects OTA to Microsoft Exchange better than any of my WinMo phones did. I imagine this is the case of any Android phone running 2.1/2.2.
It also connects to my home computer every time, unlike my experience with ActiveStink.
Works great with my Exchange account..
Interesting. I’m self employed and do all my business and manage my contacts through my phone with occasional touch-downs to my desktop PC. But I couldn’t get my Android (during the 2 days before I returned it) to connect with my Outlook at all and they told me there was no way of making it do this. For a self-employed person who doesn’t work for a larger entity and use Exchange Server it was totally useless, and I got no support working with it from my provider or from the maker. They basically told me it wouldn’t work for me.
It will sync with Exchange it’s just a pain, not as easy as the iPhone.
I have to run an app called “lock picker” other wise I would have to enter a password every time the screen goes dark. (Something about exchange security.) This all runs great on my Evo.
Take a look at Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 smart phone. I’m pretty sure it has active exchange with Outlook...calendar, tasks, mail, etc. Also opens attachments.
Also it has GAL, global address listing, for people who work for corporations (like IBM, FedEx, etc.), they have the global contact list for all worldwide employees through their work email.
It also has a nice 4” screen, plus 8.1 megapixel camera!
1and1.com offers a web based Exchange Server / Outlook service to your PC and phone - also with a web interface ... reasonable price... plus you have your own domain name.
Samsung Galaxy S. It appears not, but there may be utilities. Haven’t put any time into it yet.
All unlocked and almost all locked Android phones using a version of Android prior to Froyo sync with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Exchange Server, with full SSL and signed certs etc now.
A commercial solution:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/exchange-for-android-2-x/com.nitrodesk.droid20.nitroid
On top of that you can disable the Exchange Server 15 minute lockout with this little app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6032322
I’m using the HTC sync app, I’ve had problems syncing outlook notes to Android though, but I use that so sporadically it doesn’t matter.
I have the Motorola Droid and it syncs with my work Exchange server just fine. It even updates my calendar based on meetings and also send meeting reminders. I can send and receive e-mails (work address book is automatically loaded) and accept meetings. I can read unread messages on my phone and they will show up as read on my PC (and vice-versa). The only thing that I cannot figure out how to do is set up meetings through my phone.
All I needed to set it up was Domain\Username, Password, and Server. (my Domain is my company name and for Server it says wmail.companyname.com)
Nope. We have a POP3 email account and use some kind of push technology to connect with my Outlook now. But that's all going away soon. I am a small operation and do not run Exchange Server.
Husband and I run our own technology business. We have a hosted Exchange solution for our e-mail. Perfect solution for a small business. Works great on everything but husband’s new Droid. It does not synch with MS Outlook. His Droid is a couple of months old, so this info may not apply to the very latest version.
I have chosen to stick with the tried and true Blackberry as it is very business friendly. I get all of my e-mails from various sources (including the ones from applications that allow me to monitor customers servers), I have my Office apps. It just works. I know its no longer as sexy as a Droid, but it works and I don’t have to constantly fuss with it.
I love the fact that I am always telling him about things he is in the dark about because his phone only gets e-mails part of the time :-) (snicker, snicker). As the slow technology adopter, I am always happy to be of service.
“They basically told me it wouldn’t work for me.”
They basically lied to you — probably out of laziness.
Almost every phone maker provides sync software. It’s usually a download from the phone maker’s website. That and a USB cable would have probably been all you needed to do a tethered sync. That is what I do to sync to my info from my home pc to my phone.
Additionally, since Android is a Google product, you almost certainly would have had to set up a Gmail account somewhere in the process of configuring your phone. At the very least, you could have created a rule in your Outlook to automatically forward any messages received to your Gmail account (and therefore your phone).
I’m a 51 yr old college sophomore. I rarely ever check my student email through the school’s webmail portal because I have a rule set up that forwards all the incoming messages to my 2 home addresses, my work address, and my gmail address. My work address automatically syncs thru Exchange to my phone. My 2 home addresses auto-forward to my phone. My gmail is native to my phone.
It’s a shame you didn’t ask these questions before returning your phone. The FR family could have saved you a lot of frustration. Android is an awesome OS that is being ported to more and more phones. I hope that you are in a big enough market that you were able to tell that provider to stuff it and take your business to a more responsive provider.
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