A friend of mine purchased an iPhone and is trying to get it to sync with Outlook. He was on the phone with Apple support for 2 1/2 hours last night without success. I tried to help him today. I did all the steps I could find online, and it looks like it's working, but after all the smoke clears there are still no contacts, no email, no nothing on his iPhone.
Anyone had experience with this? iCouldUseSomeDirection.
I feel sure this is an Outlook issue, not an iPhone issue (as much fun as that would be).C'est faux!! Its an Apple product!!
I feel sure this is an Outlook issue, not an iPhone issue (as much fun as that would be).
As a side note, he gave me a tour of his phone. I thought (and this is going to hurt a little) that it did not suck as much as I expected it to. In other words, it was actually pretty cool looking. Then again, my G-whatever was cool looking on the showroom floor. We'll see how it turns out, but I'm prepared to stand corrected if it continues to work like it did during his demonstration.
I feel sure this is an Outlook issue, not an iPhone issue (as much fun as that would be).
As a side note, he gave me a tour of his phone. I thought (and this is going to hurt a little) that it did not suck as much as I expected it to. In other words, it was actually pretty cool looking. Then again, my G-whatever was cool looking on the showroom floor. We'll see how it turns out, but I'm prepared to stand corrected if it continues to work like it did during his demonstration.
A thought: Does he have any security software loaded? It can deny access to the Outlook address book to stymie worms like "I Love You." In an update years ago Microsoft made it so you would get an "allow/deny" for address book access. I wouldn't put it beyond Norton et al to make it impossible to "allow."
Checking the weather...the temperature in hell is 4 degrees C and dropping rapidly...
For all you Apple Haters...
Boy, that felt good. Nice video.
Problem solved with the Outlook sync. I tried everything including reinstalling Outlook. It became obvious that the problem was with the Outlook iTunes Sync Addin. When it was selected Outlook crashed. After three hours of failed attempts to make it work, we uninstalled Office 2003 and installed Office 2007. Everything worked like a charm. My friend offered to buy me an iPhone to thank me for the help. No thanks.
I just don't agree... It's a lot of bells and whistles and "ooh-and-ahh" inducing schmaltz... okay, okay, it's actually really cool looking ... but there's just very little meat there. Like you said, the only thing it has that current devices don't is a full browser (and while that's pretty sweet, that's hardly the stuff of game-changing revolution). And I'm just not of the school of thought that believes taking existing capabilities and slapping a better UI on top of them is "revolutionary". It's the RDF at work. Functionality wise, there's no "there" there.
Well... After having the iPhone for a month and a half...
The other night I wanted to order a pizza. Hmm, yellow pages is all the way upstairs, and I'm not. Whip out the iPhone, tap "Maps" (Google Maps), tap the search field, type "glass nickel pizza". Four location pins drop onto the map. I tap the closest location, tap the arrow next to it, and it shows a screen basically exactly like the details for one of my contacts (address, phone number, web site, etc.). Tap the phone number. "Hello, Glass Nickel, how may I help you?"
Typing in "glass nickel pizza" took less time than finding Pizza and going to G in the yellow pages even if it had been sitting on the desk next to me, and doing everything else took fewer taps (5) than even typing their phone number would have (10, woulda still been 7 even if they were in the same area code...) Very slick.
Perfect? Nope. Closer to it than any other cell phone? Heck yeah.
BTW, since getting the iPhone I've used my laptop a LOT less. It's basically always online and it's excellent for grabbing those little tidbits of info you need or want at random times of the day. I've been keeping up with reading posts on it, and I've made some posts with it. The longer posts I do from my laptop as I can still type faster with a real keyboard, though the iPhone keyboard works surprisingly well once you understand it (ie, I had to get over my perfectionist nature and let the phone automatically correct my mistakes!)
The hacking folks did come up with a way to tether with the iPhone but I'm chicken and I don't want to brick my $600 baby quite yet, so for now when I actually want to get online with my laptop I'm just swapping my SIM card back into my old phone. I do this rarely enough that it doesn't really bother me, but I'm still hoping to have a nicer way to do this soon.
Kent,
When we were talking on the phone the other night was that your iPhone? Do you attribute the multiple drops to the phone, the provider, or the area of Ohio you were in at the time?
I can do all of that with my Wing, running Windows Mobile 6. The only thing I can't do (yet, until I figure out how), is initiate a phone call by looking up the number in Google Maps.
So I hear that the latest Apple software 'bricks' any iphones that have been modded. Given that AT&T/Cingular is involved, I'm not surprised. Not at all.
So I hear that the latest Apple software 'bricks' any iphones that have been modded. Given that AT&T/Cingular is involved, I'm not surprised. Not at all.
You hear wrong. What Apple said is they won't guarantee support for hacked iPhones. They said, "Firmware hacks may brick your phone," which is about the same thing that any firmware hacker will tell you. They aren't going to reflash phones if the owner manages to brick it.
posting from an iphone at the apple store in downtown portland. I'm very impressed with the browser on this thing as well as the whole unit. Sigh, no AT&T in alaska...otherwise I'd be sold.
Now I have no excuse...what to do?
Christmas comes early for Alaskans -- iphones are now available here
They are somewhat tempting.I hate to admit it (I mean, I REALLY hate it) but one of the CAs up here has one and it is kind of cool. For being a Mac, at least.