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> Apparently it can connect to Outlook Web Access (which we have). Several
> other employees have it working, so it's gotta be possible somehow...
Ah interesting to know because some guy here was looking at it, but our IT
dept basically said "no, it won't work because we need to get the server
software". Hmmm we have outlook web access available here, so I wonder if
it could work somehow, I'll have to investigate further.
> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes",
I suspect other people can type faster than that :-)
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scott wrote:
>> Apparently it can connect to Outlook Web Access (which we have).
>> Several other employees have it working, so it's gotta be possible
>> somehow...
>
> Ah interesting to know because some guy here was looking at it, but our
> IT dept basically said "no, it won't work because we need to get the
> server software". Hmmm we have outlook web access available here, so I
> wonder if it could work somehow, I'll have to investigate further.
Perhaps there *is* a server option that you can have instead of using
OWA? (And perhaps it does something that OWA can't.) I don't know though...
>> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes",
>
> I suspect other people can type faster than that :-)
I suspect other people have found the button to turn off the "hey, let
me automatically mutilate your text as you helplessly try to type in it"
feature. :-P
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And lo On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:56:10 -0000, scott <sco### [at] scott com> did
spake thusly:
>> Apparently it can connect to Outlook Web Access (which we have).
>> Several other employees have it working, so it's gotta be possible
>> somehow...
>
> Ah interesting to know because some guy here was looking at it, but our
> IT dept basically said "no, it won't work because we need to get the
> server software". Hmmm we have outlook web access available here, so I
> wonder if it could work somehow, I'll have to investigate further.
The answer lies between yes and no. The point of the Blackberry was the
Push email facility which sent email from your server to the phone without
the need to routinely 'dial in' and that requires extra software at the
server end. If you just want to use it as a standard email device it
should work fine as any other email-capable phone. Except of course you
then have to justify buying one over every other email-capable device.
>> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes",
>
> I suspect other people can type faster than that :-)
I've seen people tapping away at it quite happily. Must get used to it.
--
Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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What you need for connectivity to the Exchange Server is BES server. I can't
imagine it being cost justifiable for only one user though. My blackberry
can access almost all exchange features, even Microsoft Office Messager.
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Invisible wrote:
> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes", a reply
> consisting of, say, a whole sentence could be something like 10 words
> long, each word probably 2--6 letters, making a total of about 32
> characters or so, which would take... over an hour to type.
Was the username an English word?
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes",
>>
>> I suspect other people can type faster than that :-)
>
> I suspect other people have found the button to turn off the "hey, let
> me automatically mutilate your text as you helplessly try to type in it"
> feature. :-P
Last I heard, the new version of the iPhone firmware that has such a button
hasn't been released yet.
(however it has been possible for a while with 3rd party software, after
jailbreaking that is)
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:12:00 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Why in the name of goodness would any sane person want to use this
> horrid, horrid device?! >_<
Because it's very useful. I've got an 8700c myself, apart from the weird
software bugs (like not being able to delete messages because of database
corruption), I really like it.
The 8700c doesn't have the "trackball" like scroll wheel, though - it's
got a dial on the right-hand side of the screen.
Jim
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:00:26 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>> I suspect other people can type faster than that
>
> I suspect other people have found the button to turn off the "hey, let
> me automatically mutilate your text as you helplessly try to type in it"
> feature. :-P
It's called "fingers smaller than bananas". ;-)
I don't crank out pages and pages of text in replies sent from it, but I
also tend to use it for reading my mail mostly, if something critical
comes up I can dash off a quick reply, otherwise I just wait until I get
back to my laptop. But at least I'm aware if there's a critsit that I
need to deal with.
Jim
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:49:16 -0500, Halbert wrote:
> What you need for connectivity to the Exchange Server is BES server. I
> can't imagine it being cost justifiable for only one user though. My
> blackberry can access almost all exchange features, even Microsoft
> Office Messager.
I've heard a rumour that you can get a 5-user license of BES at no cost
with Exchange. I don't use Exchange, though, so I don't know how true
that is.
Jim
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes", a reply
>> consisting of, say, a whole sentence could be something like 10 words
>> long, each word probably 2--6 letters, making a total of about 32
>> characters or so, which would take... over an hour to type.
>
> Was the username an English word?
No. Alphanumeric gibberish. (As usernames often are...)
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