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Originally Posted by markmarkymark
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)
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You'd need to have e.g. GPRS active all the time, however you only get charged for usage.
It shouldn't eat loads of bandwidth - should only really use it when you get email pushed to you AFAIK. It'll also use some for a periodic "heartbeat", checking with the Exchange server every so often. Doubt it'd use any more than if you used non-Push email & just set it to "Send/Receive" every x mins.
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Originally Posted by markmarkymark
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!
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Yep. You can set various options within ActiveSync on the PDA, telling it to download all previous email, or x days/weeks previous email, etc., plus set it to download whole messages, or just headers, etc.
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Originally Posted by markmarkymark
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.....
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If you connect to a wireless network, any net usage while you're connected to the wireless should be via the wireless.
What XDA is it?
I've got the XDA Mini S. You say you have 3G on yours, so is it the XDA Exec?
I'd recommend having a good look around
http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php? - lots & lots of info & help there for XDAs. The Mini S is the HTC "Wizard", the Exec is the "Universal", & the new "Trion" (Vario II with some networks) is the "HTC Hermes" (looks like a Wizard / Mini S, but has 3G too & a better CPU).