Is there ANY small phone that syncs with Outlook?

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JayDax

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Hi all.

We all know that most current phones have (or can accept) plenty of memory. I have half a gig on a MicroSD card in my E815. Way, way more than the typical Palm.

So why in hell can't we sync our contacts, calendar, tasks, and memos with a small phone? Don't even mention the abomination known as Motorola Phone Tools. And I'm not talking about a giant Blackberry. Or even the Blackberry Pearl, because it's still running RIM's crappy OS. That thing doesn't sync correctly either (screws up categories, among other things).

I just want to have this info to REFER to; vendors don't understand that we don't usually need to MAINTAIN this info on the go. Syncing with the computer is fine. Entering new info with the numeric keypad on occasion is fine too. But as it stands, these crappy OSs don't even have addresses in the contact list.

Is there any small, clamshell phone that can simply carry the same information as a PDA? And I'm not talking about E-mail, just contacts, calendar, tasks, and hopefully memos.
 
I find in my experience that even though I don't need to mantain the info on the go, I do need to note down the changes so I can make the needed adjustments when I get back to work.

At any rate, I think there are a number of phones that support basic appointment/contacts/task sync with outlook - nokia ones come to mind, I think sony's too. But if you want categories and all that other stuff, it's a different league.

Best bet right now would be the cingular 3125 (unlocked for tmobile if you need that). Small phone, light, flip, runs wm smartphone, and does not have a keyboard so it's really designed as a view only device. There is a 3125 successor in the works, but that isn't here right now, so the 3125 I think is your best bet.
 
Hey thanks for that info.

That phone does indeed come close. The fact that it's the only one of its kind reveals a lot about the failure of vendors to see a glaring hole in the current offerings.

Kind of like how the Razr emerged years and years after the StarTAC, but took over the market for the same reason: it's thin. How obvious can you get? Now we have this totally unnecessary segregation of "smart" phones, as if you need special computing power to display PDA-type information. Even your reply reflects how firmly this fallacy has been pounded into the heads of consumers: "...if you want categories and all that". It makes me laugh, since categories are both trivial to implement and essential to organizing your contacts. Do I want to scroll through dozens of business listings on my phone when I'm looking for a family member's work number? On a tiny screen? In the car? Hell no.

And heaven forbid we have ADDRESSES!

Anyway, is the Cingular 3125 is quite compelling enough to get me to switch from Verizon? Possibly, so thanks for the tip.
 
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