"Hardware" Rules At Nokia

I always hear this but I must not know any better cause this is my first time using an exchange account. But on my nexus one I setup my work email and calendar for push and it has worked perfect for over a month now.
 
That's great... but SyncML is a bit long in the tooth, doesn't do realtime syncing, and is a bit clunky. Most people (myself included) just want to turn on a device, fire up a wizard, put in a username/password and watch the data fly.

Nokia doesn't get that.
 
THIS is what bothers me the most and is HURTING Nokia in terms of proper services implementation beyond Maps.

IntelliSync is licensed for YEARS to RIM, even after Nokia purchased the company that makes it, they've improved it and continue to license it to RIM: RIM being the crackberry that they are here.

IntelliSync was the ONLY solution to offer wireless push/sync to:
Windows Mobile 2003/2005/6/6.1
S60/UIQ
BlackBerry (traditional or Embedded)
Palm (up to OS 5.0.x)

GoodTechnology offered all the above but with limitations of versions I believe.

Then again Nokia DID avoid NTP patent case that both Good & RIM succumbed to. David Fields has been hard at work with others from his team but I think its a fault of Symbian as a whole vs the cloud servers themselves.
 
"Hardware" Rules At Nokia

Lucky you Roger, I tried on a Milestone and was a disaster, calendar never syncs, contact never syncs, email (push) takes forever (for instance a 10am mail received 4pm), recently tried on a Captivate simply didn?t work, installed roadsync and email works, contact works but still have issues with the calendar.

I understand that if you rely a lot on Google Android is the better option, but for Corporate Mail every other OS out there is better.
 
I have been using Exchange for years and MfE as my corp email solution. The MfE solution has really been decent on my E72 and even with the EDoF cam I might had considered the E7. However, Wednesday I will be changing from Exchange to Google Apps which I've been looking forward to. However I suddenly realized that now I don't have a corp email solution with Nokia.

Somewhere along the way Nokia broke MfE with Google's servers. I see many people say it's a problem with both MfE AND Google. I say ********. The old 2.9.x clients on the E71 worked perfectly. However, the newer clients on the E72/E75 as well as the updated v3.x clients now have an email issue (but will sync calendar and contacts). Nokia is pointing the finger at Google since they do something slightly different instead of just adjusting their clients to make it work. Nokia can't market the E7 as the "Ultimate Business Smartphone" if it won't support Google Apps since a number of small business as well as large corporations have moved over. Nokia's lack of foresight here has removed them as a business solution and they have to get away from this notion of strict adherence to specifications and protocols. Make it work and make it work now or you're just pushing all of your users to Android.
 
yeah i dunno. my calendar shows my 2 google calendars AND my exchange calendar, and all update immediately. i can even accept a meeting request from my exchange email and it instantly adds it right to my google calendar and work account. it all works perfectly without a hitch. emails arrive instantly, etc. i couldnt be happier cause now i'm always connected, its like connection overload. i've never before had everything in the palm of my hand like that, literally!

maybe its cause i'm on froyo.
 
My understanding of the reason why current MfE doesn't work with Google is that Google uses a relatively slapdash implementation of the version of ActiveSync that was used in Exchange 2003. While updating MfE to speak the protocol used in 2010, something broke with Google, yet it still works with older versions of Exchange. Given that Exchange is the standard, I'd say it's up to Google to fix whatever is broken on their end. That's not to say that it wouldn't be wise for Nokia to fix the problem on their end, but ultimately the responsibility lies with Google.

If MfE failed to work with Zimbra, I would similarly expect Zimbra to fix it.
 
It's not like Nokia isn't aware that Gmail email sync is broken. They've been aware of it since the E75 launch on up including the N900. It's been their typical response of "it's (insert company name)'s fault, talk to them" instead of being flexible. They do the same thing with the BT support and it's infuriating that only my Nokia devices fail to automatically connect to the uConnect BT system in my wife's Jeep. Multiple BB's, iPhone and my old Nokia 6820 work as they should. None of my Symbian devices have worked. And I won't get started again on my Acura system.

iPhone works as does Android. They have to keep that in mind when trying to compete with these devices and given the fact that cloud computing is where all of this is going. Thursday I will be trying a direct IMAP connection which is likely to piss me off. *sigh*
 
"Hardware" Rules At Nokia

Pretty sad: ?There were plenty of years to make Symbian better,? said Mr. Nyman, who was at Nokia from 1983 to 2009, and took early retirement. ?We could have rewritten the whole code several times over. We had the resources and the people. But we didn?t do it.?
 
Just finished reading that article, and it explains a lot of things. Man, what could have been had Nokia jumped on some of those ideas.

I'm also interested to get my hands on that book that was mentioned near the end.
 
Yeah, very interesting read and probably largely true! Democracy is good but too much democracy is tyranny of the masses and cannot really work in a company as the only decision making principle. Then again, there _may_ also be something to what the PR person said - even these folks may not have the full picture. In any event, if its true 500 proposals how to improve Symbian were all rejected.. woah.. what a mess!

Btw, wasn't the 7710 released around 2004? Is that not the phone they say was canned? :)
 
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