http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/ Engadget Comments for More evidence of iPhone's Exchange support and RSS reader http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
I'm sure Apple employees are working on rev 1 and 2 right now, and all them early adopters will be bombarded with alot of minor and (hopefully) a few major revisions.

Besides the EDGE thing I reckon they'll come out on top of alot of criticism and shortcomings with quick s/w responses. Hopefully.]]>Jun 29th 2007 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
It's just impractical for business use- that's the bottom line. I'm not an iPhone fan, but I'm definitely an Apple fanboy. And when the learning curve on the keyboard of your device is [don't quote me] 'a few days' as preliminary reviewers are saying- the device won't be geared towards the corporate end-user.

I know Jobs says his target audience is 'everyone unhappy with their phone' or what have you- but with corporate America; you don't have a choice. Functionality takes precedence over fun menus and sleek design. The older model Blackberries weren't exactly show-stoppers; but they did their jobs, and do them well. Only lately do you see convergence between style and functionality aimed at the business market- for a while Pocket PCs/Blackberries/Treos were no-frills; and now we see the Blackberry Curve, Treo 680 (the one with no antenna?), and the Motorola Q/Dash/etc. - devices aimed for a business market; and hitting the style of a fashion-conscious 2000s America.

I believe the device including Exchange support is great, but the number of end-users that will take advantage of it, I don't think will be so high.

Just my two cents. Thanks for reading.

Chris]]>Jun 29th 2007 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
There's no fancy licensing going on. ]]>Jun 29th 2007 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
It's great that Macs (and the iphone apparently) support Exchange servers out of the box -- but is the support secure and robust? Or using an approach that some IT dept's might take issue with when sending emails with attached financial documents, sensitive press releases, etc.. ]]>Jun 29th 2007 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
Entourage uses WebDAV. Now, my place uses outlook web access (not sure if thats available in exchange all default). I found Entourage access much more convenient than Outlook 2003. Reason: Outlook required me to be on my local subnet (or use our clunky VPN), whereas Entourage was secure worldwide with no reconfigs and no vpn. Caveat: MS doesn't seem to enable all of their outlook/exchange options over WebDAV.

Also, Safari (full version 2) can access exchange via OWA, so may be another option for the phone.]]>Jun 29th 2007 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
Something I haven't seen mentioned is IMAP's potential for PUSH email. It's built into the IMAP4 protocol and would work on my SE K610i if I had the data-plan to afford it! This is how Entourage and Mail deliver email asap.]]>Jun 29th 2007 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
I myself won't be buying one till features of my $150-outright Sony Ericsson phone, like music as ringtones, MMS, and video from the camera, are on this thing. On the whole though, the iPhone is a pretty damn cool thing - and yes, the "bling factor" is off the scale]]>Jun 29th 2007 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
It's 11am in the Eastern time zone. The revenue stream from the iPhone is exactly $0 at this moment.

I'm not saying it won't BE successful, but it's definitely far from it at this point.]]>Jun 29th 2007 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
I am *hoping* having Exchange on a separate tab means support for Exchange ActiveSync ("Direct Push Technology"). This is based on HTTPS and XML and shouldn't be impossible for Apple to implement, given a licensing agreement. The only complicated part is getting the server's SSL cert on the mobile device. This would allow synchronization of calendars and contacts in addition to email. It's also really FAST compared to the alternative (which is polling your mailbox via IMAP every few minutes).

Having a separate "Exchange" tab just for IMAP would be disappointing....
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Because apple users are generally stupid folk, and Exchange IMAP requires a funky username command based on the domain, mailbox name, and user name all run together depending on whether username is the same as the mailbox alias etc it's going to just ask for those fields and make the username for you behind the scenes.

Apple users can't figure out DOMAIN/USERNAME/MAILBOX for IMAP and DOMAIN\USERNAME\MAILBOX for POP3 even when given specific instructions from IT.

And there's no way I'm opening POP3/IMAP on any of my Exchange clients. We use HTTPS RPC or encrypted VPN only. ]]>Jun 29th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/Jun 29th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/more-evidence-of-iphones-exchange-support-and-rss-reader/
This should be relatively simple requiring only some setup options for Active Synch and possibly creating a TASK application if iPhone was to take advantage of ActiveSynch wireless Tasks (which are rudimentary anyway and hardly worth the trouble). My guess is that Apple wants to create a relatively large "splash" with their first iPhone software/firmware update and providing true enterprise-level Exchange compatibility via Active Synch would solve the biggest hole in the feature set and make for a nice "told-you-so-we-can-update-the-device" announcement for Apple's iPhone upgrade release. As far as I'm concerned, if Apple provides Exchange compatibility first, some of the other bells and whistles can wait.]]>Jul 29th 2007 5:55PM