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Re: Before I buy - questions the Sales guys don't really know the answer to...

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Originally Posted by racedog View Post
I also need to sync with Outlook and not an exchange server. I found two apps that are supposed to work together to do this. One is Companionlink and the other is DejaOfiice. DejaOffice is free but Companionlink is $40. That seemed too high a price to me so I just exported my Outlook Contacts to a CSV file and uploaded it to Google contacts and then synced my phone to Google. I'm not thrilled with that idea but it works fine. I can also do the same with my calendar. But, the brings the question of Outlook because now we are syncing with google and that doesn't update Outlook and if we do our entries into Outlook then we have to export a CSV to import into google.

My dinc used HTC Sync and it was a hassle but it did work. Right now I've got what I need moved to the phone but going forward I have to find a way to do this other than exporting/importing files between my computer and google.

If I really have to I suppose I'll end up buying the Companionlink software but I'm going to keep looking for another solution and put off buying until I just don't have any other option.

R
One route is to actually transfer your domain to Google Apps. If you do the Premier Version ($50.00/year per user), they will host your website & handle all of your e-mail/calender/contacts, etc. The Premier version also has access to the outlook synchronizer which more or less puts Google as your back-end server (like exchange) but syncs your e-mail/contact/calenders, etc with outlook.
Of course, since the data is on your google account, it syncs with the phone just fine.
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