Gordon Welling
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Joined: 11-December-2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 535
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| Posted: 16-November-2006 at 11:22am
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Omni Mobile Client Limitations of Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Devices
Based on feedback from our customers, the Windows Mobile and Pocket PC
operating systems are the best platform for the advanced features of
Omni Mobile for GroupWise. Windows Mobile and Pocket PC PDA devices and smart phones
provide access to the full set of Omni Mobile features. These devices
provide excellent access and performance with Omni Mobile and Omni Messenger for GroupWise.
The following phones are highly recommended:
Windows
Mobile and Pocket PC devices provide the best attachment handling
because of the native file system and built-in document readers. This
is important because after your users get over the excitement of
reading their email on their new mobile device, they will want to do
"real" work with attachments and documents. The familiar Microsoft Windows Mobile interface experience makes for a quick and easy learning curve.
In
general, touch-screen devices provide the quickest transition for
non-technical users to adapt to a mobile platform because the stylus
replaces the mouse for navigation. Novice mobile users often find
non-touch-screen devices difficult or frustrating until they have
learned the navigation techniques to properly take advantage of the
operating system features.
In contrast to Palm OS devices,
Pocket PC and Windows Mobile phones are able to run multiple concurrent
applications. This multi-tasking ability is important because it
matches users' expectations to be able to do more than one thing at a
time. They expect to be able to switch between reading an email and
viewing an attachment while talking on the phone or switch between
viewing an attachment, reading an email and viewing a web site.
Multi-task functionality is also available on Symbian OS devices (Sony
Ericsson and Nokia Series 60).
One of the features that is only available
on the Windows Mobile and Pocket PC platform is the ability to dial
phone numbers directly from GroupWise address books. With the other
platforms, to dial from the GroupWise address books, the user
highlights the row containing the number, copies the number, opens the
phone application and pastes the number to be dialed.
Edited by Gordon Welling on 16-November-2006 at 11:26am
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Omni Web Forum : GroupWise for PDAs and Smart Phones ~ Omni Mobile : Synchronize GroupWise to Pocket PC Windows Mobile
Topic: Client Limitations ~ Windows Mobile
