Having access to your vital data on your mobile device—data such as email, calendar, and contacts—is almost as important today as having access to that data through your computer. I know many of my colleagues here at Mailtrust find themselves spending as much, if not more, time on their mobile device as they do on their computer throughout the day. We understand that a mobile revolution is taking place and we want to help our customers have access to the data they need, whether that is behind a desk or not.
That is why we are proud to announce the latest addition to our Noteworthy offering, Noteworthy Sync for Windows Mobile devices. This is the second mobile product addition for Noteworthy Sync; the first was Noteworthy Sync for BlackBerry.
With Noteworthy Sync, customers can keep their contacts, calendar, and tasks synchronized between Outlook, Noteworthy Webmail, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile devices. The best part is that customers can schedule automatic synchronizations, so that the data is always kept up to date without having to think twice about it.
Interested in using Noteworthy Sync?
• Customers who signed up online for email hosting service after October 1, 2007 already have Noteworthy Sync included in their pricing package—just log in to the control panel and select Collaboration / Sync to get started.
• For those customers who signed up online before October 1, 2007, the pricing depends on the number of mailboxes you have with us and includes a free upgrade to 10GB of storage per mailbox. Log in to the control panel and select My Account / Upgrade Services / Upgrade Email Plans to purchase the Sync upgrade.
• All other customers can determine pricing online—just log in to the control panel, select Collaboration / Sync, and follow the instructions to get started.
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Launch: Noteworthy Sync for Windows Mobile Devices
We’re still on the old pricing.
I’ve considered adding sync – but only a handful of my users would benefit from it.
Adding sync for that handful would double our current monthly charge, so I can’t make a strong business case for the upgrade.
No one here is vitally concerned about sync’ing their calendar to their BB, since most everyone with a BB has a notebook they sync to already.
I’m happy with the Webmail interface, and very very rarely use anything else.
Our sales and training people, otoh, would benefit greatly from support for calendar sharing, both internally, and externally. This would need to be standards based, as I also have mac and *nix clients. I don’t mind rearranging clients to conform to a standard, but I can’t make people change their OS for calendaring alone.
I’d be willing to pay on an ala carte basis for group calendaring. It’s almost critical enough for some users to change email providers, but would never be used by others.
I considered moving some users to Exchange hosting, but the split domain routing required is a clumsy kluge that would require excessive management on my part. If that’s changed to a more elegant solution, please post an announcement.
And allowing sync on an ala carte basis would be great, though I understand that you’d like to see the old pricing go away [that's why it's called "old"] and that it might not be that trivial a matter.
Robert – Noteworthy Sync is in on going development and we will continue to help bridge the gaps across different operating systems and email clients.
I realize though that this does not solve your problem today, so perhaps our Hosted Exchange solution would be a better fit.
With our Hosted Exchange solution you can have some users on Noteworthy and others on Hosted Exchange. We will take care of the split domain routing to make this possible internally. You do not have to do anything extra to manage this type of solution.
Feel free to email me at cameron [at] mailtrust.com and we can discuss this further.