N900 in business environment - Page 4 - maemo.org

christexaport | # 31 | 2009-09-23, 00:01 | Report

Gorgon, you sound like you speak from a 3rd Edition experience, but the homescreen in 5th Edition Nseries devices is on steroids! Way better than any 3rd Edition N or Eseries. But I agree with everything you said. Nseries is all about the camera, games and audio, and Eseries is about corporate email, document handling, and keeping the work and home usage separate via Mode, a desktop profiler.

Gorgon | # 32 | 2009-09-23, 01:48 | Report

That I do, all S60 3rd. I realize that the N97 brings an email inbox to the home screen but from my understanding it's only one box and so far no subfolders unless you go third party. I'd love to play with an N97 for a few weeks to get a feel for it but all the people that I know what went N97 from E71 admit the lack of messaging focus in the N97.

Really can't wait to see what the N900 and Maemo in general brings to the table.

handrea | # 33 | 2009-09-23, 10:11 | Report

Is there any rumor about an E-series device based on Maemo and comparable with N900?

handrea | # 34 | 2009-09-23, 10:49 | Report

Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post

....as long as you don't need a Y

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Emphasis on rumor.....

Yes, It was posted before but I didn't understand if it is a rumor, an announced product or simply a concept design..
As I said before, I prefer this concept keyboard layout rather the N900 one.

thanks
handrea

sjgadsby | # 35 | 2009-09-23, 10:54 | Report

Originally Posted by handrea View Post

Yes, It was posted before but I didn't understand if it is a rumor, an announced product or simply a concept design..

Please see the original blog post by the community member that created the image (and the comments in reply to that post).

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handrea | # 36 | 2009-12-03, 00:24 | Report

Originally Posted by handrea View Post

Hi everybody,
I've got some question about the usage of new Nokia 900 for business. I'm coming from Windows Mobile experience (the worst one, a digital nightmare which I'm anxious to exit

) and I want to understand if Nokia 900 is could be the right choice to replace my old HTC.

Outlook integration
Even if my collegues and I works and deploy applications on linux, or company desktop client are still Windows based

so the first question is if at present Maemo/N900 is able to sync Contacts, Calendar, Messages, ToDo and Notes with Outlook. Specially I mean Outlook stand-alone syncronization (not only the Exchange infrastructure). ActiveSync was one of the most buggy program I ever used but I'd like to have for the nokia N900 those features are supposed to offer.
Before fall into the Windows Mobile nightmare I was using Nokia devices syncing data with Outlook using "Nokia PC Suite": that was even worse than ActiveSync! I really hated PC Suite and it was the reason I switched to Pocket PC. One for all:
I was continuosly missing informations. I don't remember details but PC Suite supported a subset of data model so with every sync I was loosing data. (For example, suppose PC Sync is not supporting fieldA: when you sync a contact outlook > nokia on your phone you haven't of course fieldA. When the contact is synced back nokia > outlook, PC Suite destroy the fieldA because he doesn't know it!). So what about syncing Maemo N900 using PC Suite? Will I have the same nightmare?

Mobile Email client
N900 has an impressive internet navigation feature with mozilla but I wasn't able to understand what kind of support it has for email management. Have you got information of email client and how is it powerfull?
Is it possibile to manage multiple accounts via pop3, smtp, imap protocols? Of course I'm not referring to Nokia push notification service, I want to understand how can I manage email directly.

Thank you in advance
handrea

Hi everybody,
is there any news about these considerations now that the first N900 was shipped? Anyone tested these features / aspetcts?

thank you
handrea

merc248 | # 37 | 2009-12-03, 06:27 | Report

At my work, we use a free hosted Exchange 2010 server from Microsoft for educational institutions. I've found that after figuring out which server autodiscover threw me into, I've added that server into my phone through Mail for Exchange, and it synced at least some of my email (the default behavior is to only keep three days worth of email at a time in your phone, you can increase this to include all messages if you so wish) and it synced my calendar. It didn't sync my contacts, but only because that's the default behavior; you can have your phone pull down all of your contacts by changing the contact sync settings in MfE, however.

I have NEVER used PC Suite to do anything with my phone. I've found that it's practically broken when it comes to doing anything with the N900 at this point, so I never use it.

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Dinho | # 38 | 2009-12-03, 06:39 | Report

my school email is hosted on Exchange 2007 and i was able to configure the n900 to receive email, sync calendar and contacts with no problems.

fouro | # 39 | 2009-12-03, 07:02 | Report

Originally Posted by

mail for exchange is listed in the official specifications and should take care of synchronisation with an exchange environment.

As long as your IT doesn't require provisioned devices (so they can force you to use certain security settings etc). This is a big dissapointement for me (though my decision is to live with it for now).

And considering how much discussion the same issue has raised conserning Android (we had our IT helpdesk to say that stay away from Android devices if you want to use MfE), I'm probably not the only one who would need this feature.

handrea | # 40 | 2009-12-03, 08:27 | Report

Originally Posted by merc248 View Post

At my work, we use a free hosted Exchange 2010 server from Microsoft for educational institutions. I've found that after figuring out which server autodiscover threw me into, I've added that server into my phone through Mail for Exchange, and it synced at least some of my email (the default behavior is to only keep three days worth of email at a time in your phone, you can increase this to include all messages if you so wish) and it synced my calendar. It didn't sync my contacts, but only because that's the default behavior; you can have your phone pull down all of your contacts by changing the contact sync settings in MfE, however.

I have NEVER used PC Suite to do anything with my phone. I've found that it's practically broken when it comes to doing anything with the N900 at this point, so I never use it.

Thank you for reply. Unfortunately our company works with open source mail system like Zimbra and Scalix so outlook 2 devices is requested

and we cannot use the Exchange sync capability.

Anyone has tested the device with Outlook and direct usb cable connection?

Thank you
handrea