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By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Move over Treo, HP Mobile Messenger Is Here

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:49:03 +0000

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By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » A Berry Good Day?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » A Berry Good Day? — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:05:03 +0000

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By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 09 May 2005 02:28:27 +0000

mark… not sure if something like that exists. however the good solution is pretty good from my perspective especially if you are using outlook. for instance you can set-up meetings right from your handheld and basically anyone who accepts or rejects attending the meeting, that information can be synced directly with all calendars anytime. the invites are sent as an email so nothing much to worry about there. give it a shot/

By: mark pincus

mark pincus — Mon, 09 May 2005 01:24:51 +0000

om, i was just talking to mary hodder about this same problem and we couldnt come up with any good solution. i find that when i’m mobile i’m emailing to coordinate meetings and dont have time to input into the blackberry calendar and then sync to my pc. (i use mac too but have given up on any sync with ical.)

what i really want is the ability to forward an email to mycal@markpincus.com or input into blackberry and have it sync via email to my pc and outlook and even mac and ical (oh and how about to my girlfriend’s pc too.) does anything like this exist?

By: j

Sun, 08 May 2005 19:55:09 +0000

For most people (who don’t have to deal with multiple Exchange accounts), why not use Sprint’s Business Connection Personal Edition? For just $5/month over the cost of Vision, you can access multiple POP, IMAP and Exchange (via desktop client) accounts. I use it for my work email (on Exchange) and my .Mac account on my Treo 650. The only limitation I see is that it only holds the 75 most recent emails you’ve received in each account.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 08 May 2005 15:51:55 +0000

Damian,

I agree, the storage is the key. I mean with GMail offering 2GB for free, the least these guys could do is offer the service with 1 GB of storage space. anyway I think MailStreet is going to respond soon enough/

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 08 May 2005 13:45:15 +0000

Rob - agreed on market size. I hope that they do a java-based application, then it should, with a little work, run on a variety of platforms. At that point, as soon as I can get my mail through a mobile client, I’ll change my email over to that service and be done with the Blackberry.

Om - I see your point on size - not an issue for me since I can file most of my stuff locally (have to do that with even 400mb) - I figure Mailstreet is going to start feeling the heat and start upping the disk space pretty soon.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 08 May 2005 06:51:33 +0000

Rob, can you tell me which service you have. i am suggesting the good-hosted exchange for treo/pocket pc devices only. ical-2-exchange via groupcal is a pretty good option. still please post your questions and hopefully i can answer those more clearly

By: rob

rob — Sun, 08 May 2005 06:07:27 +0000

Im pretty sure that yahoo is coming out with new cell phone integration software for samsung on cingular. i know samsung for sure, I dunno about the others like moto.
Figure the 75-200 dollar cell phone market is alot bigger than the pda/blackberry market combined.
Back to Om, I am in a different spot. I would love to have ical. I love the feature that it can sync with a ton off different cell phones.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:24:03 +0000

Damian, one thing which is an issue with Mailstreet is the size of the mailbox. For extra storage, you have to pay more. In case of Deskoptional, i guess the storage is more flexible - about 400 megabytes or so.

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:18:05 +0000

Om -

Mailstreet.com is another provider of hosted Exchange/Good software - they charge $12.95 for the basic mailbox and $330/year for the Goodlink software - which comes out to approximately $40 a month - a good deal cheaper than your current solution. I have a hosted account with Mailstreet and a Blackberry - love the solution.

I think Yahoo is missing an opportunity here - if I was them, I would be making Yahoo mail software for the Treo, Blackberry and Smartphones of every kind. Then you could have everything synced up without the need for Microsoft Exchange.

Just my 2 cents,

Damian

By: danoschmano

danoschmano — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:06:09 +0000

Om,

That sounds like a sweet set up. I have about 1/2 of your set up.

I don’t receive a lot of emails per day (lucky me!), so I can get away with just using a yahoo.com email account. Their wireless-optimized site for mail is pretty nice.

My mobile access device is a Dell Axim x50v which has WiFi and a 640×480 screen (VGA). I found it to be a very handy instant-on, internet-access device. WiFi plus Bloglines is a great option with the Dell since Bloglines does a *great* job of rendering for mobile devices.

I’m looking forward to getting a Pocket PC-based phone someday when cellular data plans come down in price a bit.