Back for help picking a new service/phone - Been gone a long time!

If I am understanding it correctly BB's are allowed, just not personal BB's on the company's BES. Which makes a lot of sense to me. Besides, if your employer has a restrictive IT policy on their BES, you probably wouldn't want to have your personal BB activated on their BES as you might not be able to send email with attachments, download programs, use the web browser, etc.

If I am understanding things, the IT dept is telling our3rotts that only way to get wireless sync of contacts, email, and calendar on a personal device is to use a WM phone.

 

Thanks Matt for the explanation, it makes a lot of sense to me now. Just surpised to hear that WM is better for this situation then BB. Always thought BB was "it" for email business and/or personal use. And Android is cool for syncing everything, I am enjoying the myTouch a lot.

 

Everything It is saying is pretty much correct. A BB can be the most secure, but if they don't allow personal phones on the BES there is nothing you can do. They could have allowed you to have your work email on a BIS plan, but that would not have given you contact and calendar syncing. When it comes to a work situation it is unfortunate that you are completely at the mercy of your employer's IT department as to what they will support for you. The Eris is a nice device, active sync is still a little hit or miss with the email delivery, but overall works good. You were asking why I would pick the Tour over the Curve2. It's for the same reasons you listed, only we have different priorities. I would want the better camera and higher res screen and I prefer the larger device with a bigger keyboard, though the optical track pad and WiFi does make it a harder decision.

 

Thanks for the explanation, AnthroMatt. This now makes sense to me.

 

Good luck our3rotts.Be sure to let us know how you like the Eris.

 

I was somewhat confused as well, I am on the BIS plan and use DM to synch with my Calendar, Contacts, To Do List and Memo Pad. I only have my personal E-Mail accounts on my BB. When I had WM I did the same thing except I could only BT synch, which posed a problem for OS upgrades that required I have a wired connection. I am not sure if our IT will eventually stop the BB as well but for now I am happy, I refuse to pay another $15 to be on the BES plan when I have access to my work laptop pretty much 24/7.

Please keep us posted on how the Eris works out for you and have fun playing with it.

Glad everything got sorted out for you our3rotts.

 

No confusion, just expanding my knowledge of BB and IT.

You should like your Eris a lot, Later I will try to post my favorite apps and such from the Android Market to get you started. I am still waiting for some new ROMS and a full backup to the original ROM for my MyTouch.to ROOT it.

 

I only know 3 people that had the Droid, and two of them returned it for the Eris because they thought the keyboard was more trouble that it was worth. The other one kept the Droid, but never uses the real keyboard.

I chose the Moment on Sprint because of it's physical keyboard...and it is a nice keyboard, much better than the Driod's. My manager has the Eris and he is jealous of my phone.

 

Or wait a little longer for the Devour.

 

If you're anything like me, about 45 times (3 times per day) sounds about right.

 

Over and above changing my mind 45 times, I would not be able to wait 2 weeks, I am into *instant gratification*; immediately if not sooner for me. :lmao:

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I can't understand why email and calendar sync would work on the Droid but not contact sync. Are you sure your VP selected contact sync? Android phones prefer to sync with GMail contacts by default, so the contact sync may need to me enabled (not sure...just a thought). My work Exchange contacts sync just fine on my Android device...even though I actually would have preferred they not. Not worth erasing my phone entirely to get rid of them though. I just hide them from my contacts view.

As to why you should like WinMo...ask Charlyee or Jay. They are the only people I know that don't hate it.

 

Funny...just goes to show how weird Exchange set-ups can be. My company was using a non-MS certificate and as a result, only iPhones, Android, and Blackberry devices could sync. No WinMo phones or WebOS phones would work as a result of the certificate we were using. The IT dept. recently switched to a new certificate, and now everything works.

Budney is using a MyTouch (Android) now I think. He did used to use WinMo phones though. So I guess he is a fan too.

 

I would imagine hacked versions would be available. I know hacked roms exist to upgrade Windows on my Tilt and on my old iPAQ. The manufacturers and/or carriers aren't going to include an upgrade as that's less of an incentive to purchase a new phone.

 

Ah yes, that is correct. It's pretty easy to copy the Global Addresses into your personal Contacts folder anyway should you need to do so. Good news for you!

 

It's great to hear the journey is almost over, enjoy Android and your Eris. I do have a MyTouch 3G, which I am having a blast with. But I still do like WM because for me it was easy to navigate and also all the hacking and programs for it. The HD2 is the only possible device that could get WM7, no go for the TP2.

 

Glad to hear, you a got definitive answer from your "It Guy". It kind of lets me off the hook as well, I had no intention of talking up WM, so basically I got saved by the Android.

The Eris got some really good reviews, looking forward to your experience with it.

Have fun with your new toy.

 

ActiveSynch Exchange will synch and download your contacts from your PC to your phone 'in the cloud'.

For Global addresses/contacts, ActiveSynch provides a searchable database of the entire companies LDAP address. Its very fast, just typing the first characters and it starts provide probable results. Once found it displays all the data on LDAP: email, phone, office, address, etc. It's quite good. Works from the address book or the email program directly.

I use it on my iPhone to look up a 80,0000 employee database.

 

Woo-hoo!

We all expect detailed feedback once you get it!

 

Yes absolutely and starting from the "unboxing" preferably.