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markmarkymark · 17-12-2006, 13:44

Hi All

I have some general basic questions I wonder if someone could help answer...

I have a O2 XDA PDA arriving soon. It has a 50 MEG data bundle within the monthly network charge (this is in addition to my call costs etc).

I have exchange email, supplied by a third party, which supports MS Push Mail protocals etc as standard. They say they will PUSH email in the direction of my PDA.

The PDA has a set of mobile office applications include OUtlook. Its not a Blackberry (obviously). OK...

1) With Push email I assume that the PDA has to be connected / monitoring a server the whole time. Does this eat bandwidth or only when the email is actually pushed (i.e. when the PDA downloads the email)

2) My current email exhange box is many many MEG big with multiple folders and lots of stored files etc. Can I assume that I can set Outlook (in the PDA) only to deal with emails say over the last few days, and perhaps with only certain folders? For example my sent folder has 2500 emails or more in it - I do not want to PDA to access all this and further more it could not store it all locally!

3) The PDA has wireless connection as well as 3G and GPRS. I have a wireless account. Therefore I figure that as long as I am near a wireless data point it is cheaper to use the wireless connection to check emails etc and this would not then use the data bundle allowance. I therefore assume I can tell the PDA to use the wireless connection in preference.....

(I know every PDA is different - I guess these are just some generic questions that someone who uses a similar device might be able to answer).

Thanks for your help!

regards

Mark

17-12-2006, 13:44	#1
markmarkymark Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 351	PDA Push email etc Hi All I have some general basic questions I wonder if someone could help answer... I have a O2 XDA PDA arriving soon. It has a 50 MEG data bundle within the monthly network charge (this is in addition to my call costs etc). I have exchange email, supplied by a third party, which supports MS Push Mail protocals etc as standard. They say they will PUSH email in the direction of my PDA. The PDA has a set of mobile office applications include OUtlook. Its not a Blackberry (obviously). OK... 1) With Push email I assume that the PDA has to be connected / monitoring a server the whole time. Does this eat bandwidth or only when the email is actually pushed (i.e. when the PDA downloads the email) 2) My current email exhange box is many many MEG big with multiple folders and lots of stored files etc. Can I assume that I can set Outlook (in the PDA) only to deal with emails say over the last few days, and perhaps with only certain folders? For example my sent folder has 2500 emails or more in it - I do not want to PDA to access all this and further more it could not store it all locally! 3) The PDA has wireless connection as well as 3G and GPRS. I have a wireless account. Therefore I figure that as long as I am near a wireless data point it is cheaper to use the wireless connection to check emails etc and this would not then use the data bundle allowance. I therefore assume I can tell the PDA to use the wireless connection in preference..... (I know every PDA is different - I guess these are just some generic questions that someone who uses a similar device might be able to answer). Thanks for your help! regards Mark