How on Earth is it possible that the supposed "robot phone" that "does more than a smartphone" is too stupid to work with Microsoft Exchange?? This baffles me because all along I was under the impression that it would have "full ActiveSync support built in", but apparently this is not the case. I'm not real sure why it doesn't work, and I'm certain that I don't care, but this is something that completely ruins the option of this being an enterprise solution for a smart phone. The Apple iPhone didn't have Exchange support for a little over a year, but they finally got it and got it right. This is the second version of the Andriod OS and I expected a lot better from Google, or Motorola, or whoever is at fault here.
The phone can be synced to an Exchange server, but only the inbox is accessible. If that's not bad enough, the security policies that are in effect in almost every Microsoft Exchange environment cannot be enforced. Administrators cannot enforce a password and lock-out time limit, they can't remote wipe the device, and even with third party software it seems that the device simply is not for an enterprise environment. Yet.
I'm sure the Droid will have some type of update or something that makes it completely work with Exchange as it should, but the question is: when will that happen? This is very disappointing for the people who used their upgrade to get this phone only to have to return it because of the way it violates most computing policies. Now the upgrade has to be used on something less Droid-like…
Way to go Droid guys.
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