It is absolutely outrageous that they're shipping this phone and it will NOT contain the MSFP (Message Security and Feature Pack.) SP2 for Exchange has been out for how long now? Verizon pulled the same damned trick with the 700w. People would open the box and discover... "Wait a second - this isn't push email! This is a BS attempt at push email using SMS messages to prompt the device to go check for email!"
Lo and behold, 4 months after it was released, Palm FINALLY released the patch to enable MSFP. Yet I've read in many reviews that the Q "works with Exchange" - I call that hogwash. Yes it "functions" with Exchange, but let's see what it can't do...
1. Access the GAL
2. No "direct push" - SMS eats the battery. Complaint from my users without MSFP enabled devices.
3. No encryption
4. No remote wipe in the event the device is lost/stolen
And in the reviews I've read, MSFP is supposedly going to be a patch for the Q. What are these developers doing on a daily basis that they can't release a product that actually WORKS OUT OF THE BOX with technology that has been available for over 8 months?! Hats off to motorola.
And for all the WM5 fanbois out there - I have a Palm 700w. It sucks. WM5 sucks - it crashes, it's unintuitive to a non-techy user.
I had a BB 7750 before that - it was slow but at least it didn't crash (as much.) Of course, it couldn't play music or take crappy pictures, and it was as slow as molasses moving around. The Internet browsing on BlackBerry's is attrocious and they too release patches that break functionality (see most recent 4.1 for 7250's).
Both have their +/- but coming from BlackBerry, I expected to be using a BlackBerry killer - admittedly, I'm happier now with MSFP than before, but resetting my device every few days doesn't inspire confidence.
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It is absolutely outrageous that they're shipping this phone and it will NOT contain the MSFP (Message Security and Feature Pack.) SP2 for Exchange has been out for how long now? Verizon pulled the same damned trick with the 700w. People would open the box and discover... "Wait a second - this isn't push email! This is a BS attempt at push email using SMS messages to prompt the device to go check for email!"
Lo and behold, 4 months after it was released, Palm FINALLY released the patch to enable MSFP. Yet I've read in many reviews that the Q "works with Exchange" - I call that hogwash. Yes it "functions" with Exchange, but let's see what it can't do...
1. Access the GAL
2. No "direct push" - SMS eats the battery. Complaint from my users without MSFP enabled devices.
3. No encryption
4. No remote wipe in the event the device is lost/stolen
And in the reviews I've read, MSFP is supposedly going to be a patch for the Q. What are these developers doing on a daily basis that they can't release a product that actually WORKS OUT OF THE BOX with technology that has been available for over 8 months?! Hats off to motorola.
And for all the WM5 fanbois out there - I have a Palm 700w. It sucks. WM5 sucks - it crashes, it's unintuitive to a non-techy user.
I had a BB 7750 before that - it was slow but at least it didn't crash (as much.) Of course, it couldn't play music or take crappy pictures, and it was as slow as molasses moving around. The Internet browsing on BlackBerry's is attrocious and they too release patches that break functionality (see most recent 4.1 for 7250's).
Both have their +/- but coming from BlackBerry, I expected to be using a BlackBerry killer - admittedly, I'm happier now with MSFP than before, but resetting my device every few days doesn't inspire confidence.