Re: Email on the move (PDAs)

["keyvan2r" <keyvan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not familiar with openhand but with Duality switching between
inbox & calendar is instant and it runs in the background using the
mailboxes & appointments facility provided by the native OS.
It's a little slower on the Nokia 9300 (2 seconds or so) opening a
message. But I think that's down to a slower OS with Symbian 80.
The managment software for adding, reseting users and back-end
management is very simple to use as it picks up all user info from
Exchange. You can also control how many days worth of emails /
appointments the device shows so that you don't have to keep
deleting emails on the PPC. This is very useful, as many users want
to keep old emails in their in-box at their desktop but only want
see recent mails while on the move.
Deleting emails from the PPC will move the emails to the deleted
folder on the outlook desktop. Reading the email from the ppc will
instantly show it as read on the desktop etc.
The tech support has been excellent so far and they are adding
features all the time, like giving access to the Exchange server
mail-lists (internal emails, etc) as well the email addresses from
the contacts database on the device.
They will provide a 30 day trial copy for up to 6 users.
Including the trial period we have had it running for 4 months now
without a hitch. I am very impressed so far.
On my reccomendation, our venture capital guys spoke to them for
investment but they were already in talks with Seven, who has now
bought them for $60m!
If you want I can put you in touch with them. Drop me a line off-
list if you need the details.
HTH

Keyvan
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "White, Peter" <peter.white@b...>
wrote:
> Do you get much latency when switching views? I.e., the thing that
bugs me
> about Openhand is that when I switch from the Inbox to the
Calendar, I have
> to watch the hourglass for 15 second whilst it tries to
synchronise the
> view.  With BB that's all done in the background, which is a much
cleaner
> way of doing it.
>
>    _____
>
> From: keyvan2r [mailto:keyvan@e...]
> Sent: 20 May 2005 17:25
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Email on the move (PDAs)
>
>
> We decided to do away with Blackberries in our company becuase we
> were using the Vodafone webmail service with desktop redirector
and
> this just had too many problems. Instead of opting for the BES I
> decided to go with this product.
>
> http://www.smartner.com/products/index.html
> <http://www.smartner.com/products/index.html>
> (no affiliation etc.)
> We are using the enterprise edition with 47 users so far, rolling
> out another 50+ soon. The handhelds we use are, Motorola MPX220,
> Qtek 9090 and iJam (PPC with GSM), Nokia 9300 and Sony 910i which
> all double as phones too.
> We run Exchange 2000 and it works like a dream!!
> All email and calenders are instantly pushed out / updated. Much,
> much better than Blackberries.
> The software has a push-connector back-end which can run on the
> exchange server or a dedicated PC. This then shadows exchange
> activity for registered users and communicates with smartner
middle-
> ware servers which then push out to devices over gprs.
>
> There are signle user versions for sale on Handango.com. The
> subscription is $5 a month.
>
> We have been very pleased with results and the users love it.
>
> Keyvan
>