Changes in school email might mean new device for me

13 Jan 2009 in Journal,thoughts  [print]  

My school is migrating to Microsoft Exchange. It’s about time. The awesome thing is that they’ve got support for ActiveSync over the air. When my account is migrated, that means that I can cut some costs. I’ll have to have every­thing forwarded to my school account. But firstly, I have to determine whether or not the help desk can help me set up an alias for sending mail: I still want to be ‘sending’ emails through my ‘corporate’ account.

Now, this means that I can either stay with Black­Berry using AstraSync (ActiveSync over Black­Berry), or move back to a Windows Mobile device. Astrasync is only $50 a year, coming out to $5 a month. I could save on my current Exchange + Black­Berry set up: it comes out to $18 a month right now. A massive amount of savings: $166 a year. I think I’d just pay the AstraSync fee and stay on a Black­Berry. I might also save on my T-Mobile fees, but I’m not sure yet. I have to check if there’s a difference between BES and BIS. Why does this matter? Appar­ently, AstraSync can handle every­thing via BIS.

Exciting times…and if anything, I guess it wouldn’t be terrible if my outgoing emails are through my school: after all, my ‘corporate business’ is kinda slow right now.

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1 Baller Jones January 15, 2009 at 0219

I didn’t think such a school would be so quick to adapt. Also I dis-recommend WinMo on most devices.

2 Wistful Writer January 15, 2009 at 0248

You just have a bad experience with beta firmware. You probably still haven’t done as I recommended: check to see if T-Mobile’s update is WM 6.1. If you’re gonna hate on WM, hate on a proper firmware. Here, I did the searching for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374890

With the new Palm Pre coming out, this is looking good. Of course, that all depends on how well the OS handles, but so far so good.

I think it’s freaking awesome that a crap college like mine has Exchange. It might also have to do with a smaller user base. I haven’t been migrated yet, but I’ll be excited as hell once it’s done. I’ll be saving big bucks.

3 Baller Jones January 15, 2009 at 2201

I wasn’t actually speaking on my experience. Quite the contrary; I like the WinMo on the Dash just fine; I just hear (from LL and in person) that WinMo is sluggish as fuck on 95% of devices.