October 12, 2007 at 4:32 pmFiled under Software, Hardware
ActiveSync for iPhone? No word yet. iPXSync? It sounds great. Is ANYONE out there participating in this beta? As tedious days of accessing my work email via Outlook Web Access via my iPhone’s Safari web browser took their toll, I went in search of other iPhone Exchange access solutions.
Surprisingly, I found one: The company is called Visto, and their web site’s landing page describes their product in broad strokes: Visto Mobile will allow users to send and receive emails, appointments and tasks, as well as view attachments, from their cellphone for Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes users. Curiously, they aren’t mentioning ‘Exchange’ or the word ’server’, but instead stating that Visto Mobile provides “mobile access to Microsoft Outlook.”
The Visto web site has a pre-registration form on its homepage which indicates a Q3 2007 free trial. The mention of the iPhone is no where to be found except on a page buried on the site. The page has an iPhone specific free trial sign-up form.
The original mention of Visto is an Everything iPhone forum post. Again, its unclear if this is a true sync solution. Fingers crossed for the real deal: ActiveSync for iPhone.Tags:Hardware, iPhone, iPhone ActiveSync, iPXSync, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, SaaS, Software, Visto, Visto Mobile
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timheuer wrote @ October 12th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
my guess is that IPXsync is the same as the others…they state they use IMAP (http://kb.ipxsync.com/article.aspx?id=10010) which likely means you’ll have to provide them your user/pass and then they are essentially serving as an IMAP broker…the viso looks like a desktop option where you have to have a client on your desktop — otherwsie, why not just use exchange activesync with the other devices they are demonstrating?
Jeff wrote @ October 16th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Visto looks like a Blackberry Enterprise solution where you need a “server” that talks to your Exchange box. However, like IPXSync (which is a poor choice of name for the IP world), there is no mention of synchronizing contacts. The real solution is yet to be released. Maybe Santa will be bringing it.
I’m a PR rep for Visto, and just wanted to let you know that Visto Mobile is now available for the iPhone. It’s available here: http://www.vistomobile.com/vistomobile/page.cfm?pageid=15.
wj wrote @ February 6th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
i tried the visto - it is basically an application that lives on your computer and forwards email to your phone - your computer has to stay turned on and connected to your network for it to work. You can also delegate your connection to other people on the network. It doesn’t work very well - constantly looses the connection (pretty much any time I actually want to check email on my phone) but they are supposedly working to fix that.
shak wrote @ February 21st, 2008 at 1:05 am
This is bogus solution.
We need full support for exchange server WITHOUT requiring IMAP. This means wireless syncing for calendar, tasks, email, contacts. I love the iphone so please, please, Apple, get your act together and just pay for ActiveSync licensing! It may cost you a bundle in the short term, but it’s the only way to penetrate the corporate IT guys.
