Hello,
I am new to the WM/Smartphone arena and have what I hope to be a simple question. I purchased the smart phones (one mine one wife's) initially for the calendar feature so we could keep up with each others schedule. We only have a Mac at home and I was wondering if I used The Missing Sync software from Mark/Space if I would be allowed to sync both HTC Touch's with only one $40 license. We simply use the same comp/calendar/etc on the Mac
I don't see any limitation on their site other than if syncing to multiple computers - but nothing about 1 computer and 2 phones.
Does anyone know if this will work?
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Hi guys,
I've searched this forum and haven't found an answer to my question, so I'm gonna post it here. (Hopefully I did the search right and didn't commit the felony of a double post. )
I'm planning on buying a new phone, mainly because my old HTC Charmer (WM 6.1) doesn't support SDHC cards and the maximum of 4GB of the cards I can use with it is just not enough any more.
So far, I've read quite some disappointing details about Windows Phone 7:
- No more "free" apps (by which I mean apps programmed by someone and offered somewhere, now it's the same sh** as with an iPhone or an Android phone)
- No direct USB-sync, which means you have to send your private information to the cloud in order to sync
- No "real" support for SD-Cards (and getting more storage space is the whole da** point here, otherwise I'm quite happy with my Charmer)
So, basically I thought about getting a second hand HTC Touch Pro II running WM 6.5 AND supporting NORMAL SDHC cards (meaning ALL cards which comply with the standard, not just the ones "certified by Microsoft").
But there might be one killer feature which could make me, well, not really forget, but maybe turn a blind eye to WP7's SHAMEFUL flaws: The new Microsoft Office Mobile. Often, I have some Excel spreadsheets which I need for work at different places. This is the only reason I have to take a laptop computer with me, apart from that my phone would be fine.
Office Mobile in WM 6.1 (or 6.5) couldn't display / make use of all the features the Desktop-Version offered (like extremely complicated formulae or spreadsheets and of course macros), and, moreover, after having worked on and saved an Office document on a phone, the features would even have been removed from the file in the conversion process, so the file was useless on the desktop as well.
Thus, I'm asking the following questions (which surprisingly haven't been answered on the net so far, or am I just too stupid to google it right?):
- Is the Office in WM 7 fully functional, meaning you can work on Excel sheets with the most complicated formulae and macros, or, asked more simple, can you do everything you can do with the Desktop version on your phone as well?
- If it doesn't offer everything the desktop versions offers, does it at least keep everything that was there in the original file after you change and save it on your phone? I mean, even if I can't use macros on the Windows Phone, it might still be helpful to open an .xls file on the phone, make a few changes (which don't require macros), save the file on the phone and after putting it back on a desktop computer having the file "unharmed" (meaning except for the small change I made on the phone everything else is as it was)?
Hopefully, I made my point clear enough, if not, I'm happy to answer questions on what it is exactly that I want to know. I think many users here already having a Windows phone will have tried working on Office documents on their phones and I hope those will share their experiences with me.
Many thanks for reading my post and even more thanks for answering.
Peter
Firstly,in terms of the functionalities of the excel,I don't think WP7 is suitable for you.
Furthermore,personally I prefer USB drag and drop the documents to my device,maybe you can call me old school.I just find the office useless for me since I don't have sharepoint,I don't want create a dropbox account just to upload my file to cloud and download it to my device again and I don't have a data plan.Therefore,until now, I still didn't use the office app once.
In your situation,I think you need an android phone to handle your job this moment,you can just purchase quick office,docs to go,depends on your personal preference.In addition,the only office app available is just microsoft office,no other choices.furthermore,as you said,you want transfer it back to your desktop unharm,therefore it is good to have drag and drop file transfer function rather than rely on dropbox,upload to the cloud and download on your desktop again.
On the other hand,there is no clear information about the mango updates which add more features to the office.So,I'll would suggest you to go with Android or iOS for this moment.
Thank you for the answer.
No more "free" apps (by which I mean apps programmed by someone and offered somewhere, now it's the same sh** as with an iPhone or an Android phone)
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Free, in cost, there are plenty. Free as in not first checked by MS, kinda but no. You can developer unlock your device and sideload apps. However, that being said, MS are pretty good, they're only blocking apps which don't meet quality control standards (which I think is a good thing) or, somewhat contentiously, are "adult". They're not playing the same game as Apple.
I'm confused by you saying Android though. You can easily download and install programs (apk) on your device from any source (you just have to choose that option in the settings).
Office in Mango is improving - specifically:
1. Better support for formulae
2. Skydrive sync
So, yes, formulae can be created and manipulated in Excel, though I wouldn't say it's a replacement for the real Excel. It certainly can't run macros.
Skydrive is still "in the cloud" however, you're automatically registered to the free account by the virtue of having a live id. I still believe we should have USB file transfer but at least this is better than nothing.
Casey
We have 2 Galaxy Tabs, 4 iPads, 3 Xoom's, 1 XY Board and more than a dozen smart phones that we have connected to our 2007 Exchange server. Up until about a month or so ago we had no issues. Now the 3 Xoom's will hold some email in the outbox and never send them. There is no rhyme or reason that I can see to why some emails will go and some will not. It appears that this happens only on reply's and not new messages, and only some reply's. The Xoom's are running the latest version of Honeycomb, 3.2.6 on Verizon's network. We also have devices running on T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T, I doubt it's the carrier. I've spent more time then I care to admit trying to find a solution to this. Yes, I understand there are other email clients in the market but they have limitations and for what we paid for the tablets I kind of think it's crazy not to be able to utilize the native client. The only solution I've been able to find is to not check the "include text" box which for business purposes isn't much of a solution.
If anyone has any thoughts please share.
UPDATE-
I spoke with Motorola's Tier 4 support group and they told me this is a known issue but they have had a hard time replicating the problem. We have offered up a test email account in our servers for them to use with their Xoom hardware in hopes of recreating the problem and pulling the appropriate logs. I was told because it's a Google Experience Device the "fix" would have to come from Google, not from Motorola. Additionallly, they had no idea if the email client in ICS would be any different than the one currently installed on the Xoom. Overall I was very happy with Motorola's willingness to try and help us out. I should have just rooted the tablets (even though they're company property) and run one of the many outstanding custom ROM's...
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Hi.
I am using a Dell Streak 5 as primary mobile. Android 2.3.4. I am using is for productive things. Appointments, Contacts, phone, SMS, wikipedia offline.
But it does not have a contract including data and I won't change that.
I am using WLAN for connecting to Internet. I have that practically in all my places.
Now I am in need of a secondary phone.
Useage:
Surfing, sometimes Phoning, Contacts, calendar. Perhaps as spare for the Streak 5. Call Recording.
Important if using as spare: good speach quality. Unfortunately the Streak is not that good in that discipline.
I thought of a used BB 9360, used for 120€.
Could you tell me if that fits me? Currently I am more in the Android world and I like the ability to modify everything.
I'd like to have a real keyboard and I'd like to have something new. Like a Blackberry which would be new to me.
Could you give me some advice?
It should be available in large quantities on the used devices market and below 150€.
If I decide for the 9360 I am yet missing a very handy function: Call Recording. It is available for practically all Android devices and three newer Blackberrys but not for the 9360.
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I have an AT&T Home Manager by Samsung, Model SMT - i8110 and am wondering if anyone knows what OS Samsung used on this unit and if it can be converted to something that will allow the web access to work with again. The desk frame/phone unit is the i8110 number. I am not sure what the base station is that connects to the actual Ethernet connection of the Internet router. These were supported for limited web access by AT&T when they were being sold but that access was discontinued not long after AT&T stopped selling the units. If they could have a version of Android put on them they would be great for desk or counter top access for things like appointment calendar, weather, and recipe access through the available apps. Since I am not a dev, and know nothing about coding and development I have to ask those here that are much smarter than myself.
Thanks,
Gary