Rahhhhh!
I have an HTC Desire, and a Blackberry Bold 9700.
I have sync issues, as pretty well all handsets do, for one reason. None of them bothered to update their "sync" adaptors, that Microsoft what's it called - Activesync or some other bundle of junk. It is ALL Microsoft's fault!!!!!!
Why the {insert your preferred expletive here} would they release 64 bit Microsoft Office, to run on 64 Bit Windows 7, and NOT release a 64 bit version of Activestink to work with it, and just about every damn phone out there?
So, if keeping Outlook synced with your phone is what you're after, it's a case of forget it for now, or do it through Google Apps. It's a {insert your preferred expletive here} rip off, as usual.
Either that, or make sure you're still running a 32 bit version of Office/Outlook - oh, Office - you cannot run a 32 bit Office app with a 64 bit version (so if e.g. Word is 64 bit on your machine, Outlook also has to be).
Wind up isn't in it.
Microsoft have corralled all the phone manufacturers into a corner and told them 2011 for release of a 64 bit version of Activejunk. It stinks.
Yes, people, I have a little passion, shall we say, about this one.
Rant off. Back to the phone thing.
As said, I have an HTC Desire - lovely phone, but not a business phone. Really, Android has not got the support or apps it needs to make it in heavy duty business environs yet. Another year or so, it may.
Blackberry - business phone of choice, given it does email like no other, however many email accounts you throw at it, does it in less than 20% of the bandwidth an iPhone or Android takes (think data use), and *can* do internet, Twitter, Facebook, Spreadsheet, Word, etc., with a little effort - Docs to Go is the app of choice for MS Office files and PDF files too.
Blackberry is normally let down by its screen - it's fractions of the size of the IP4 or the HTC.
Haven't played with the Torch yet, but BB6 (the OS that it runs on) promises good things, and the Torch is also the first touch/type phone they've done - hardware specs aren't stunning next to the IP4, but if keeping your business on the go is what you're after, it may be the best for you.
The IP4, of course, can pretty well do it all, reasonably. It does email, is killer for internet, and well, it's an iPod too.
But, like everything Apple, it will be obsolete around February next year. Then you'll all want an IP5, or 4-3GS, or whatever they call the next iteration.
In terms of apps, you'll get most free on the Android platform, then BB, then Apple - where almost nothing worthwhile (business) is free.
All that said, I'm still probably going to hit an IP4 up at contract renewal in...oh, 2 weeks or so. I'll be moving it, like the rest of our phones to T-Mobile. They knock the pants off O2 right now, in every way, I won't even look at Vodafone after the way they treated us this year, and Orange is, well, more of a lemon. I don't really want Dolphins, or Canaries, or Panthers running round my office, just contracts which tell me what they give, in a simple way.
I was with Orange for years - and never really got much from them one way or another, and only T-Mobile (Yeah, I know they're "Everything Everywhere" together now), have been helpful at all in any way - £60 quid a month to do what I want - unlimited calls, unlimited text, unlimited browsing inc email (with the £5 bolt on thing through CPW)........so, £65 a month if I make sure to minimise calls to 08 numbers.
And their internet is faster than OhToo or Voda too - both at 3.6MBPS, whereas T-Mob are delivering 7.2 every time.
I should mention, I will keep my Bold too - in one network or another, as a most reliable back up/email device.
