Android, mit seiner engen Verknüpfung zu Googles Onlinediensten, bietet sich zur synchronisierten Datenhaltung ideal an. Dank der eingebauten Funktion zum Datenabgleich sind Kalendereinträge, Kontakte und E-Mail von vielen Stellen aus erreichbar und können synchron gehalten werden. Wird am PC ein Kontakt in Google Mail hinzugefügt, ist dieser innerhalb kürzester Zeit auch auf dem Android Gerät [...]

Exchange Anbindung ab Werk möglich – ohne extra App
Das HTC Desire bietet ab Werk die Möglichkeit eine Anbindung an einen Microsoft Exchange Server zu vollziehen. Das heißt ohne eine zusätzliche Applikation können Mails, Kontakte und Kalenderdaten synchronisiert werden. Bei vielen anderen Android Geräten müssen erst entsprechende Apps installiert werden, die zudem kostenpflichtig sind.
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More and more patches arrive every week on WebOS Internals, and with each patch comes plenty of new and useful functionality. A new patch aims to alleviate a painful problem that has afflicted some Palm owners: getting your contacts out of the Palm Profile. As we’ve reported before, some users have run into an issue where a glitch between the Palm servers and your phone results in the Palm Profile’s personal data getting wiped.

The “Send All Contacts via Email” patch by bsiegel provides a way to get your contacts out of the Palm Profile and into whatever you want. The patch adds the menu option to export your contacts into a standard vCard file (which can take a while if you have a lot) and then attaches that file to an email for you to send to wherever you desire. We’ll use Google as an example here: once exported you can save the vCard file to your computer, and then upload all the contacts to Google by opening Contacts and clicking on Import.

Apart from transferring your contacts from the Palm Profile to Google, you can also use the patch to perform backups of your contacts data, as the patch does not discriminate between sources like Google, Palm, and Exchange.

Thanks to Matt for the tip!

Thanks to Jim for the heads up!

Do you want Microsoft Exchange for all that magical calendar, email, and contacts syncing and pushing onto your webOS phone, but don’t feel like paying for a server all your own? Mail2Web may be the solution you’ve been looking for. The service hooks into your current email accounts, including Gmail and Hotmail, as well as your ISP or business mails, pushes it through their Exchange servers, and down to your phone.

Mail2Web also provides you with something that your Palm Profile doesn’t give: online web browser access through a standard Outlook Web Access client. Mail2Web costs $4.95/month, though a 60-day free trial is currently available. For more information, check out Mail2Web’s website.

Of course, there are plenty of other hosted-exchange services out there like 4smartphone and 1and1 – which is your favorite?

Thanks to not-yet-pre for the tip!

As we know that some of you have noticed, webOS 1.3.1 changed the way that email is handled with respect to POP access. If you’re not familiar with POP (Post Office Protocol) email, essentially the way the service is ‘supposed’ to work is that computers download the email from the server but do not communicate their status back to the server (e.g. the server will not know if you’ve read the email). This stands in contrast to IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), in which read, flagged, and deleted statuses are synced back to the server and other clients accessing the same account. To deal with the amount of email that can amass on a server, many POP users choose to have the server delete messages after they’re downloaded by the computer.

Prior to the most recent webOS update, POP email status didn’t work quite the way it was ‘supposed’ to work. Email used to actually be checked back against the server, and if the email had been deleted there it was then deleted on the phone, even if you hadn’t read it on phone. From a design standpoint, that’s not ideal POP behavior, as POP is supposed to download messages and ignore what happens on the server after that. In essence, POP on webOS used to work sort of like IMAP ‘lite’ email. This worked well for users that relied on POP for their email access (many ISPs only offer POP), as handling emails in bulk on their computer subsequently handled them in bulk on their webOS phones.

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Howard Stern, take note: Lotus Notes synchronization has come to the Palm Pre, courtesy of CommonTime’s newly updated mNotes Wireless. The update to mNotes brings over-the-air Lotus Notes sync to webOS, as well as the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and S60. Lotus Notes support the Pre through mNotes is handled through Microsoft Exchange syncing; essentially mNotes is transforms Lotus Notes into an Exchange account.

The latest version of mNotes and the mSuite for Palm Pre is available as a free trial from the CommonTime website, extended use comes to the tune of $140/year.

Thanks to muchtall for the tip!