MPX220 Question Please

I have a V551 and am thinking of upgrading(?) to the MPX220. My main reason
to do so (though not only one) would be to sync with Outlook (without buying
extra stuff). Almost exclusively for the contact list and appointment
scheduler, Some of my Outlook appointments carry a note of three or four
sentences though. Would the 220 do this? Does it accept added memory? Is
there a way to search the contact list in greater detail than just the first
letter of the contact as with the V551?
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Thanks in advance... Fred

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I have had my mpx220 for a few months now, and I'm extremely happy with
it. For me, it is definitely the right buy at this time; however, I
continued to use my Ipaq in parallel - the two may overlap but do
complement each other well.

Syncing with Outlook works perfectly, both for contacts and the
calendar. Yes, you can access notes for both of those, but they re not
as nicely formattted as they are on the Pocket PC.

Memory: I have a memory card in it, for maps etc., but I don't think
you can upgrade the internal memory. So far, there has been no need.

The search for contacts is extremely well done, but it took me a little
while to figure it out:

Just type any name (first name, last name or whatever) or phone number,
and the phone will display all possible matches. Example: for Fred,
you'd type 3733.

I have some 1300 contacts in the phone; with 3-5 keypresses, I usually
have the right match in the first 5 that the phone displays.

One shortcoming: I travel a lot internationally, so all my contacts are
preceded by the country code (e.g. +49 (911) 123456) As a result, I can
hardly use the phone number matching trick, as I'd always have to type
about 6 numbers until I get a significantly reduced list. It would be
better if one could opt to have the number sequence matched anywhere
inside the phone number (i.e. typing 123 would yield the above number
just as well as +49911123).

Apart from the built in functions, I use Pocket Streets 2005 (free from
Microsoft) with maps (also free on their web site, or exported from
Streets&Trips), together with a tiny Bluetooth GPS receiver (from
Tomtom). That combination worked instantly and is very useful,
especially considering the price.

I can recommend the phoe 100%.

Please let me know if you find any other useful (free or almost free)
software for the phone ...

Regards

Rainer


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I like to get this phone and I appreciate if you answer my question.

I keep pages of information in the note area of my contacts. Can you please
verify if sync would work with the notes located under each contact? You
can paste three pages of text in the note field of one of your contacts and
see if you can see all the text in the MPX220 after a synch.

Thanks,


"rnprivat" <rnprivat.1lwhrn@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in message
news:rnprivat.1lwhrn@WiFi-Forum_dot_com...
>
> I have had my mpx220 for a few months now, and I'm extremely happy with
> it. For me, it is definitely the right buy at this time; however, I
> continued to use my Ipaq in parallel - the two may overlap but do
> complement each other well.
>
> Syncing with Outlook works perfectly, both for contacts and the
> calendar. Yes, you can access notes for both of those, but they re not
> as nicely formattted as they are on the Pocket PC.
>
> Memory: I have a memory card in it, for maps etc., but I don't think
> you can upgrade the internal memory. So far, there has been no need.
>
> The search for contacts is extremely well done, but it took me a little
> while to figure it out:
>
> Just type any name (first name, last name or whatever) or phone number,
> and the phone will display all possible matches. Example: for Fred,
> you'd type 3733.
>
> I have some 1300 contacts in the phone; with 3-5 keypresses, I usually
> have the right match in the first 5 that the phone displays.
>
> One shortcoming: I travel a lot internationally, so all my contacts are
> preceded by the country code (e.g. +49 (911) 123456) As a result, I can
> hardly use the phone number matching trick, as I'd always have to type
> about 6 numbers until I get a significantly reduced list. It would be
> better if one could opt to have the number sequence matched anywhere
> inside the phone number (i.e. typing 123 would yield the above number
> just as well as +49911123).
>
> Apart from the built in functions, I use Pocket Streets 2005 (free from
> Microsoft) with maps (also free on their web site, or exported from
> Streets&Trips), together with a tiny Bluetooth GPS receiver (from
> Tomtom). That combination worked instantly and is very useful,
> especially considering the price.
>
> I can recommend the phoe 100%.
>
> Please let me know if you find any other useful (free or almost free)
> software for the phone ...
>
> Regards
>
> Rainer
>
>
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> rnprivat
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>

John, I haven't verified whether notes are limited in size, and cannot
do so now. But I can confirm that I have pretty large notes and haven't
noted any cases where the note was cut off.

I do agree that the notes are the 'killer element' in MS Outlook's /
Pocket PC's Contacts, and I also use them extensively.

I DID notice one shortcoming:

I would store a contact with the follwing data like this:

Name: John Doe
Company: Hewlett Packard (Manhattan Branch)
Save As: HP Manhattan (Doe, John)

(Actually, I use 3-character customer and site codes instead of the
company name to group contacts by company.)

With Pocket PC, you lose some of the (but not all) of the blanks
preceding the "(" bracket, in a gradual process.

However, with Smartphone, it seems that you gradually lose more and
more of the "Save As" specials: You find contacts stored under their
names in Outlook, after a few syncs.

I wish someone would do something about this quickly.

Rainer


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