On 28 Aug, 18:48, "Dave Wade" wrote:
A guy I used to work with, and who is used to Microsoft Exchange Active Sync
on his mobile is now working on his own and using GMail. What options are
there, if any for the non e-mail access he got on Active Sync such as
Calendar and Contacts sync?

Look for a phone that supports SyncML Data Sync (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML) either out of the box (any Symbian OS
phone from Nokia or Sony Ericsson), or with an additional app then
pick up an account at somewhere like Mobical (www.mobical.net), or use
the Google Contacts and Calendar (which I believe support SyncML).

Or go for an Android phone whioch has built in support for sync with
Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar

On 31/08/2010 08:22, Pete Fotheringham wrote:
On 28 Aug, 18:48, "Dave wrote:
A guy I used to work with, and who is used to Microsoft Exchange Active Sync
on his mobile is now working on his own and using GMail. What options are
there, if any for the non e-mail access he got on Active Sync such as
Calendar and Contacts sync?

Look for a phone that supports SyncML Data Sync (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML) either out of the box (any Symbian OS
phone from Nokia or Sony Ericsson), or with an additional app then
pick up an account at somewhere like Mobical (www.mobical.net), or use
the Google Contacts and Calendar (which I believe support SyncML).

Or go for an Android phone whioch has built in support for sync with
Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar


When you go to Android all the others seem silly! iphone? Forget it!

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Dave Wade wrote:

A guy I used to work with, and who is used to Microsoft Exchange Active
Sync on his mobile is now working on his own and using GMail. What options
are there, if any for the non e-mail access he got on Active Sync such as
Calendar and Contacts sync?


Any Android smartphone should do the job. There are specific apps. for
GMail.

Yep, My HTC Desire "just works" with Google calendar, mail, etc syncing
contacts with the google cloud, notification of appointments by beep or
sms.

If you have duplicate contacts on the phone/google cloud/facebook even,
you can link them together so your address book doesn't end up overly
bloated and messy.


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"JL" wrote in message
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Is there anyway to use this 'fake' exchange on a PC? I've tried using
m.google.com as an Exchange server in Outlook but it doesn't work. Does
on the phone though - very handy and didn't know I could do this!

Are there any other mail programs other than Outlook that I could get it
to work with?


I wouldn't expect it to work. Prior to Exchange 2010 the Outlook Web Access
server has three separate web sites, one for traditional web access, a very
cut down version for use in web browsers on small foot print devices
(Outlook Mobile Access) and one for "Active Sync".
I expect that all Google does is emulate the last one for Active Sync.
site....

Oh and there isn't a web site for full outlook web access, that's just MAPI
tunneled in HTTPS and its passed straight through to the server via the RPC
over HTTP service that runs outside the web browser.

Apparently Microsoft document the Active Sync so third parties can interface
their phones to it, but I don't think MAPI is documented any where...
although there are third party servers that talk MAPI...

Best option for Outlook is IMAP..

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"Brian Gregory [UK]" wrote in message
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"Dave Wade" wrote in message
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A guy I used to work with, and who is used to Microsoft Exchange Active
Sync on his mobile is now working on his own and using GMail. What
options are there, if any for the non e-mail access he got on Active Sync
such as Calendar and Contacts sync?

You just tell your phone to use m.google.com as your Exchange Server then
you can sync most things with Google.

Search for "Google Sync" in Google.

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"Jim" wrote in message
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On 31/08/2010 08:22, Pete Fotheringham wrote:
On 28 Aug, 18:48, "Dave wrote:
A guy I used to work with, and who is used to Microsoft Exchange Active
Sync
on his mobile is now working on his own and using GMail. What options
are
there, if any for the non e-mail access he got on Active Sync such as
Calendar and Contacts sync?

Look for a phone that supports SyncML Data Sync (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML) either out of the box (any Symbian OS
phone from Nokia or Sony Ericsson), or with an additional app then
pick up an account at somewhere like Mobical (www.mobical.net), or use
the Google Contacts and Calendar (which I believe support SyncML).

Or go for an Android phone whioch has built in support for sync with
Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar


When you go to Android all the others seem silly! iphone? Forget it!

Thanks folks for all the input. He has bought an HTC with Android...