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Wrike syncs Microsoft Exchange contacts with T-Mobile G1

17 October 2008 by Staff Editor


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Many people have all their contacts synced with Microsoft Exchange, however with the T-Mobile G1 contacts are only synced with your Google address book, leaving it difficult for those who do not use Gmail. There is now a downloadable sync tool that allows you to sync your contacts right from the Microsoft Exchange Server, and not a moment too soon.

This application will be be free to everyone. The development was sponsored by Wrike, web-based project management software that is transparently integrated with email, and Intermedia, the leading exchange hosting provider. They claim that “ContactsSync works perfectly for updating data in your G1 phone address book.” The draw-back to this method is that if there are any changes made in your exchange address book you will have to synchronize it again for changes to take place; unlike, say, using Exchange natively on a Windows Mobile handset, there’s no automatic synchronization.

Once you download ContactsSync to your T-Mobile G1 setting it up is pretty simple. All you have to do is open the application, go to Menu> Settings and enter the email and password for your Exchange account. There are advanced settings if you wish to manually configure the Exchange web services address. After the application is setup you just press “Load contacts” and the contacts will copy over to your G1. This application will not sync over the contacts already on your device, however if you already have the contact on your phone it will be duplicated. As of now it only works one way too; we’re told a later version of ContacsSync will support two-way synchronization and merging of contacts.

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  1. I know I'll use this. Now if we can just get exchange mail...
  2. Cant wait to use this...

    I wonder if it can sync 2 exchange servers?
  3. Hey, great news! It's only gonna get better from here
  4. Win. thats one off the list for thousands of ppl...
  5. @ariesboy

    at the end of the article, it clearly states only one way sync is available right now, with possibly two way sync available in the future
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vincent View Post
    Would you guys be interested in test driving the apps? I received this response when asking for more info:
    Vincent,

    The Google Android market will be officially open to third parties after the launch date. We are in talks with Google to let us in for the launch, but that is not certain right now.

    It would be great to get some feedback on the app from you. We know there is space for improvement, of cause. Maybe you could advise us on which direction we should take.

    I appreciate your time and will look forward to chatting further.

    Ragards,

    Daria
    PM me a link vincent and i'll give it a go
  7. Since the G1 is ALWAYS connected to the internet, I don't see how "automatic synchronization" hasn't been implemented yet. And also, synching only possible one way??????

    I'm sure that these things are all possible, they probably just need more time to code-in these features.

    There is no reason why these features shouldn't be implemented into this App.
  8. Well it does auto sync your phone. The support for exchange is not there though. Thats why this application is being created.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tread View Post
    @ariesboy

    at the end of the article, it clearly states only one way sync is available right now, with possibly two way sync available in the future

    2 way sync is different than 2 exchange sync.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vincent View Post
    Would you guys be interested in test driving the apps? I received this response when asking for more info:
    Vincent,

    The Google Android market will be officially open to third parties after the launch date. We are in talks with Google to let us in for the launch, but that is not certain right now.

    It would be great to get some feedback on the app from you. We know there is space for improvement, of cause. Maybe you could advise us on which direction we should take.

    I appreciate your time and will look forward to chatting further.

    Ragards,

    Daria
    I'll test drive the app too!
  11. My company's IT group doesn't allow outside access to the exchange server. As an alternative, I exported my personal contacts to a csv file and imported the contacts to the G1 through the gmail tool. I use my Blackberry for corporate email and my G1 for personal use only. Hopefully MS will get an Android version so I can do both from one device.
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