Re: Cell Phones That Synchronize Well With Outlook?

In alt.cellular.cingular Will <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote:
> I don't quite understand some subtlety here. All of the other posts here
> say a shortcoming of the Motorola RAZR is that it requires one address book
> entry per phone if you are synchronizing with Outlook. Are you not agreeing
> with that? I wasn't asking a question about what you can do on the phone
> without synchronizing to Outlook.

I think you worded the inquiry awkwardly. I thought you wanted to use the
same Outlook database with three different telephones (I do that). I'm
still not sure that isn't what you are asking.

> My question is what cell phone will let me store multiple phones
> hierarchically under the address book entry on *both* the phone and Outlook,
> and synchronize in that form seamlessly. I need to use Outlook as a form
> of backup for the case I lose the phone or the SIM card is corrupted or
> damaged. I don't want a hierarchical address book to become a flat
> one-phone-per-contact book on Outlook, which would make it next to
> impossible to send the book from Outlook to another phone is an organized
> state.

Now I think you are talking about one phone, but you want to have more than
one phone number associated with the same contact name in both the phone
and Outlook. I do that.

I use Motorola Phone Tools and a Bluetooth Dongle to synchronize the
phonebook on my v551 and v220 with Outlook on Windows XP-SP2.

By default, the Motorola phones treat every phone number as a separate
entry in the phone book display. You can set your phone to only show one
listing for each name in the phone phonebook. phonebook-menu-setup-view
primary contacts. When you highlight a name, use right/left arrow, it
changes the icon, indicating the work/mobile/home, and leaves that one as
the one that shows as the primary number. If you "select" or "view, then
you can scroll up and down through the multiple entries for that name,
showing the number and the text description of that entry. From there,
menu allows you to set one as the primary.

Synced to Outlook, you get multiple phone numbers listed under one Contact.

The SIM won't store the breadth of information that you need for a nested
hierarchy. The numbers need to be stored to the phone, so that the
additional attribute of "home", "business", "email" can be stored with the
entry. When stored to SIM, all you get is a shorter name, the number, and
a location (speed number). Storing to the phone allows you to attach other
attributes, like a picture to display during ringing, a recording for
voice-dialing match, and phone number type.

The only thing I store to SIM is a a short set of emergency contact
numbers, because I know that the SIM will survive conditions that will
destroy the phone and its memory.

Motorola Phone Tools will use it's own database if you don't want to use
Outlook, although it defaults to Outlook. Once MPT comes up, use "File-New"
to create a new database, which will be a MS-Jet (Access) .mdb file,
accessible via MSAcces or ODB. It will also store the phonebook as a
..csv file, if all you are interested in is backup.

I bought Motorola Phone Tools from the BVRP web site at a higher price
because I wanted to download it and sync my phone book from my previous
phone immediately. It is cheaper on eBay, or from ShopOEM.com.

You can use promotion code tech97 to get a 15% discount off of any software
http://www.bvrp.com/customers/motorola/upgrade/US/


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5