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Originally Posted by psyang
My wife actually bought a Windows 7 phone and ended up returning it for an Android phone. Her one requirement was the ability for her phone to sync email, contacts, and tasks with Outlook directly (ie. not through Exchange). Amazingly, there was no simple way to do this. One of the many steps she needed to do to even start having the ability to sync was to create a hotmail account. Even so, she never got syncing of those three things working properly.
Since she already had a gmail account, and syncing on android was more mature (though still far from perfect), she returned her Win7 phone for an android.
It boggles my mind that Microsoft has frittered away one huge advantage by not supporting syncing directly with Outlook, which Win Mobile w/ActiveSync was able to do.
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Agree that Microsoft should have done better with Outlook integration, but are you saying Android will sync “more maturely” with Outlook directly?
If not, and your wife went to Android and is just using gmail, then I totally disagree that syncing of gmail mail, contacts, or calendar are “more mature” in Android than Windows Phone 7. My google accout is my primary account, and gmail, google contacts, and google calendar are all integrated seamlessly. All I had to do was input my account ID once, and all 3 were up and running, with all of my google contacts integrated into the “People Hub”.
Another thing I’m really happy with is the Twitter integration. I only signed up for twitter just before the trade deadline as I was going to be away from TV, and was pleased to see that twitter is completely integrated without the need of any 3rd party apps. The best part is that the people you follow are (behind the scenes, by default) stored as separate contacts in the People Hub which allows you to take advantage of the grouping function – on my home screen I have a live tile exclusively for my hockey feeds, one for news, one for comedy, etc. So on deadline day I could check all of the breaking trade updates with one touch, and didn’t have to sort through all of the non-hockey updates.
Not having used Android extensively, it may have that functionality without my knowledge, but regardless, the WP7 integration is great.