![]() I couldn't figure it out, that is, until I figured it out. But I just couldn't figure out how to take advantage of all the new goodies, while still retaining the control and power of Outlook and mobile PIM data. ![]() New phones, new online calendaring and contact solutions, and new ideas have been tantalizingly close to improving upon the old Outlook and smart phone combination. In the past year, meanwhile, hardware and software companies, Silicon Valley start-ups and wireless carriers have been innovating like crazy. Lack of handset choice: I find myself tempted sometimes by hot, new phones, but so many of them are incompatible with Outlook, don't have serious keyboards or in some other way are knocked out of consideration by my longstanding addiction to Outlook, mobile PIM (personal information manager) data and the need to type on the phone.Right now, my BlackBerry sync app crashes every time I sync. Sometimes the contacts are all duplicated, sometimes the dates on Outlook tasks are reset to hundreds of years in the future. Syncing: I've always had problems with syncing phones.Some are better than others, but all of them are vastly inferior than full-size keyboards. The experience of typing on a smart phone: Even the best smart phone keyboards are slow and awkward.The size of the smart phones: There are dozens of smart phones out there, and almost all of them are far too big and bulky to fit in a pocket inconspicuously. ![]() And I needed these two to be synced together. I need my contacts, calendar, to-do list and notes available both on my desktop and on my phone. phones, then my current BlackBerry Pearl - supported Outlook and little else. But for years, I've felt locked into Outlook because whatever smart phone I was using - first Palm Inc. I've never used 90% of its features and I've long wanted to dump it. ![]()
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