I have had a personal Android phone since the G1, and have been using Gmail since the days when you needed an invitation. So my Google account is pretty robust.
I recently got an S3 from my employer and am contemplating the risks of signing in to my personal Google account on my work phone. I have bought lots of apps over the years so signing in as me would have a lot of advantages.
But I am concerned about what sort of access my employer might gain to my Google account, it's my life. I am pretty sure a remote wipe only effects the device, not my actual account in the cloud but i'm not 100% positive. Would my IT department be able to access my Gmail messages? We use Exchange, not Google for email. I have read a few things saying you should use a separate account for your work phone but they are talking about email accounts. I'm not using Google for my work email.
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Hi,
I have done a search and can't find anything that advises on this, sorry if I have missed something though.
My wife & Me both have WM phones and have been using mail2web's free exchange service for a few years now, which both handsets have been syncing with. This has worked great as we have a common calendar and contacts list, updated in both places whenever one of us adds or removes something. Not sure if it is supposed to be used like this but it has been perfect for us.
email is not too much of a worry, I have been using the mail2web push account and wifey has been using googlemail and hotmail, I'm not fussed about using pop3 though.
My dilemma comes that now mail2web are starting to charge, I'm thinking about changing & am after some suggestions as to the way to go.
What I need is a service that will sync calendar & contacts over the GSM/3G network automatically (like exchange activesync) with both handsets. We both have seperate googlemail and live/hotmail accounts so I don't think that we could use those services??
I'd ideally like to be able to access the info in outlook offline (and again have this sync'd without having to have the WM device plugged into puter), as this is something I miss since using mail2web free.
Oh, and I'd like the whole thing to be free (apart from the obvious data charges!).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Hope that all makes sense!!
I have had a paid Mail2web account for a few years. I have three different HTC phones that I use and accounts with two carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile).
I have all three phones sync with a single Mail2web account. It works with no problem.
In your case, you and your wife will have to share contacts. As long as you don't mind your wife seeing your girlfriends contact info, you'll be OK. It sounds like you are using different email accounts anyway. I've done that too. You can have your phone use the mail2web push account and hers set up to draw off her gmail account.
rambo6 said:
I have had a paid Mail2web account for a few years. I have three different HTC phones that I use and accounts with two carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile).
I have all three phones sync with a single Mail2web account. It works with no problem.
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Sorry, should have made my original post clearer. This is exactly what we have been doing but using the mail2web free service, which is obviously becoming not free from the end of the month.
I was wondering if there was a similar service that would sync the same info on 2 phones (or more) at once and for free?
rambo6 said:
In your case, you and your wife will have to share contacts. As long as you don't mind your wife seeing your girlfriends contact info, you'll be OK. It sounds like you are using different email accounts anyway. I've done that too. You can have your phone use the mail2web push account and hers set up to draw off her gmail account.
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Yep, exactly right. I'm quite looking forward to getting html email from exchange 2007 though, if I stay with the 'new' mail2web (after the 60 day trial expires).
Any further thoughts? Google calendar?
IMO, what's really needed for these phones, and might even be on the cards with Google's licensing of the Exchange ActiveSync protocol, is a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server)-like relay package.
A piece of software that sits on a computer or server (or the server) in the office, and stays logged into each of your user's Exchange mailboxes via MAPI, then syncs messages, calendar, contacts etc. realtime to the Google Mail / Gmail account.
Shouldn't be very hard to create, especially for those who have written apps like GsyncIT.
I believe there already is one such package, I found it a few days ago, can't remember the name - it has an M in it ( ), but it looked a bit pricey and like it was intended to do more than just Exchange -> Gmail (was a generic Cloud-sync package).
A fairly simple extension of something like GsyncIT I should think. The Exchange Information Store ACLs would be modified so that user "GoogleSyncAdmin" has Full Mailbox access to the mailboxes concerned, and the users would be mapped to GoogleMail accounts. Job done, proper push synchronisation on Android. The handsets would just be registered to a Gmail account.
The alternative, which may also be on the cards for the same reason, is that Google develop a BIS (Blackberry Internet Service)-like extension to Gmail, whereby Gmail stays logged into your Exchange Account via ExchangeActiveSync, and pulls changes down. This would require working EAS on the user's Exchange Server, and would require providing Exchange credentials to Gmail. I guess it'd be just like their current POP-downloading facility, but for Exchange, and hopefully including Calendar & Contacts sync.
I prefer the BES-like solution personally. No ports need to be opened on the user's Exchange server, you could run multiple Exchange servers behind a no-inbound firewall, and it's probably less troublesome overall. The BES-like package could also inject hidden instruction-messages that control features of the handset, IT policy, block downloads, wipe data etc.
Doing exchange->[beslike software]->gmail->phone would mean that any messages sent from the device would come from your gmail account though, not your exchange account.
Much better to have a true exchange client on the device, then it works both ways.
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Doing exchange->[beslike software]->gmail->phone would mean that any messages sent from the device would come from your gmail account though, not your exchange account.
Much better to have a true exchange client on the device, then it works both ways.
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No, they would just allow you to set Reply-To/From: just like they do with your other existing emails addresses at the moment.
I think this device rapidly needs Exchange/Activesync support, Office Documents and USB internet sharing for free and quick.
I am testing this device for our company and unless it can do these well and ideally free then its a non-starter for us.
This is the product I had seen: http://www.cemaphore.com/index.html
Lowest pricing is $325/yr for 5 users with the online service, which isn't so expensive, but annual pricing is a pain, and can't buy less than 5 users.
cemaphore is buggy.
Their client crashes constantly, and says mail is sent that never really was. Avoid or wait till it's more stable in later versions.
Ok... So, for the past year, I have been using my Microsoft Exchange/Outlook to store all contacts (even previous personal ones from before I started this job) and syncing with my phone via Touchdown. I have always turned off Google Contacts because it always created duplicates. I still have some contacts in Google, but not all. I am no longer with that company and want to now use Google Contacts. What is the best suggestion to get all contacts from Exchange into Google so I can begin syncing that way and avoid duplicates?
Thanks
Google is your best friend.
Hi guys, is there something I missed or is there really no possibility to search for emails using the integrated email app and the integrated google search?
I can't believe it - it's a Google phone and it doesn't support the main discipline?
yea i still cant believe it doesnt have search yet..
if you are talking about exchange as the "main" old school discipline, then it will depend on the 3rd party app you are using to access your exchange account.
the build in exchange support is just there to only fulfill the basic need to receive new emails
in contrast Gmail app, is amazing, and a search through 7 years of google archive email history comes up instantly
obviously Google wants to favor toward Gmail than exchange, it's just common business sense
i'll suggest touchdown if you are the exchange school of people, it's as good as you can get for exchange support
I've just started working for an extremely corporate company.
I'm using my own Note3 rooted.
Everybody in the company is using Touchdown to manage their meetings, mails etc. And the IT guy says that this is the only option (I dont trust him, he is a lazy guy)
Android has the option for adding an account as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, of which settings are identical when the IT guy set up he Touchdown.
Short story long, I hate Touchdown, I'm not what kind of security system my company uses, I just want push mails, contact and calendar syncs.
Any help is appreciated with couple of local beers, I promise.