Week One with the iPhone
The other day I reluctantly went into the local AT&T store to find a replacement for my Palm Treo that I had been hoping would hold out for me until January when AT&T was supposed to get in the new Palm Pre but it just wasn’t meant to be. I went in w/ the intention of checking out the BlackBerry Bold but the more I looked at the iPhone the more I realized that the touchscreen keyboard wasn’t too bad (that was my holdout from day one w/ the iPhone).
Another holdout that I had w/ the iPhone was that I had heard that it wouldn’t synchronize with Outlook. For me that is a huge deal because the past 15+ years of my life are archived in Outlook as well as my notes, tasks, and client data going back as long as I have been in business. Leaving that kind of business intelligence behind was not an option. I asked around and a few people told me that it was possible to sync up w/ Outlook but person after person at the AT&T store told me that the iPhone would not synchronize with Outlook, but I knew that I trusted my friends who had said that it would do it so I went ahead and brought a 3gs home w/ me to test it out.
Sure enough, on the first attempt it synchronized right up with my Outlook Contacts and Calendar. Someone should tell AT&T to send out a memo to all of their sales people and let them know this because apparently it’s not common knowledge to them. Long story short, I was able to sync up my contacts and my calendar but not able to hook up w/ my tasks. And a few months ago the tasks thing would have been a deal killer for me but my partners and I recently moved over to Basecamp to do our project management so I was able to just load an app to handle my tasking and I was all setup. Even better than I had hoped for…
