Slightly OT - sync Blackberry, iPhone with Linux

[matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, <jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> First one quick and easy way to sync across platforms directly, is through
> google. It will sync with bb, android or iphone. Can do it for just a one
> off if you want.
>
> Second I've been using the 8830 on sprint for a couple years and its been
> pretty good.  I have noticed many of the "speed" issues are really latency,
> which may or may not be blackcerry specific. Not sure how the blacberry
> infrastructure ties in but it could be a factor.
>
> Personally I would like to move to an android solution, however I am
> currently tied to an exchange server and not paying the bill so...
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry? smartphone with SprintSpeed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:47:02
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> Subject: Re: Slightly OT - sync Blackberry, iPhone with Linux
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The Motorala Droid (and probably other Android models) can be connected to
Exchange infrastructure if your company uses either a single Exchange server
with OWA or if they use OWA front-end proxy to backend cluster of Exchange
servers.  Email, Calendar and Contacts are all sync'd through the OWA system
seemlessly.

The one function you will lose is the ability to do a Active Directory
lookup.  Currently the BB's can search your own contacts in your contact
list, but can also search through Active Directory.  The Android just keeps
a sync'd copy of your own contacts.

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