Apple iPhone 3G - 16GB, black (AT&T) - Exchange server support

Worker bees common accept accessible the iPhone 3G's abounding abutment for Microsoft Exchange server. In our tests, abacus an Exchange annual was ridiculously accessible already we had the actual settings from our IT department--simply accept to add a new e-mail annual in the capital Settings menu, and you'll be taken to the accepted annual of accessible e-mail systems. "Microsoft Exchange" and "MobileMe" will arise at the top of the annual aloof aloft the best for Gmail. You'll afresh be prompted to admission the applicative e-mail address, domain/username, server, and password. The affidavit action took aloof a brace of minutes. Installing CNET's aegis affidavit airish a bit of a challenge, but we eventually succeeded by commitment the affidavit to ourselves through Yahoo Mail.

Once you're accessible to go, the iPhone will accompany your Outlook e-mail, contacts, and calendar. Be brash that while the iPhone can abutment assorted POP3 accounts at already (two Yahoo accounts, for instance), it syncs with alone one Exchange server and, worse, with alone with one agenda or contacts annual at a time. If you accept a abstracted claimed calendar, your assignment agenda will alter it already you alpha the sync. (You'll be notified afore it happens.)

As an alternative, though, you can accompany e-mail after syncing your contacts and calendar. Also, you can accumulate assignment and claimed e-mail accounts accessible at the aforementioned time, although you'll accept to about-face amid the two (unlike on a BlackBerry). MobileMe is addition way to assignment about this restriction, but we'll allocution about the later.

When application Wi-Fi, e-mail syncing went quickly. As new letters came in, the iPhone registered them about immediately. It seemed to bog bottomward aback we accustomed a ample array of letters at one time, however. In those cases, we had to amend the buzz manually, but alike afresh the affiliation could freeze. In one instance, an amend took about 5 minutes--long abundant that we had to aback out of the e-mail app and try afresh later. We additionally noticed that if the iPhone loses its Wi-Fi connection, the syncing is disconnected alike if the buzz has 3G service. The Syncing via 3G was aloof as quick; if there was a difference, we didn't apprehension it. But if the 3G affiliation is shaky, it will booty longer.

When we deleted a bulletin on our phone, the aforementioned e-mail vanished on our PC aloof a brace of abnormal later. Letters deleted on the PC took best to abandon from the phone; typically, we had to do a chiral amend to see them gone. Letters deleted on the buzz will appearance up in your PC's Recycle Bin and carnality versa. Aback the abstracts affiliation is weak, deleting and affective letters can be problematic. There were a few instances aback the iPhone would not let us annul a accidental message. But aback we go aback to our computer, the bulletin was absolutely in the Trash.

You can admission all folders in your in-box and move letters from your in-box to a specific folder. You can't chase for messages, but you can alarm a acquaintance if they accommodate their buzz cardinal in their e-mail. Aperture accessories formed as promised, and we like how you now can save absorbed images anon to your photo arcade artlessly by borer the image. To e-mail photos, you will charge to do so in the acceptable address by aperture the photo, selecting the e-mail option, and allotment which annual you'd like to accelerate from. We had some adversity forwarding big attachments--on a brace of occasions we had to try assorted times to accelerate the bulletin on to a colleague. Also, the iPhone was not able to appearance imbedded JPEG images on e-mails.

The e-mail syncing is not after its faults, and it can't admeasurement up to a BlackBerry aloof yet, but it is a acceptable footfall against authoritative the iPhone a business device. Your acquaintance will depend on how you use e-mail throughout the day. If you get array of messages, and you charge acknowledge to anniversary one, afresh we'd advance captivation off for now. But if you get scores, and alone acknowledge to a few (or you aloof get a few), afresh you could be altogether agreeable with the experience. Admitting according to AT&T, application Exchange server abutment on the iPhone 3G will crave the business abstracts plan (the one that costs $45 per month), we're not abiding how AT&T will accomplish this rule. The iPhone does not alert you of this brake in any way.