HI peter,
As an ex-PDA consultant/retailer I've had all sorts of combinations of
sync between Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and iPhone and entourage.
I must say that I found the windows mobile (the OS your HTC Touch Pro
2 runs) the most cranky, with quite a few episodes of failure to
connect and wipes. This is with different windows mobile devices and
pcs as well as macs. There is alot of documentation out there about
how finicky ActiveSync can be (just google it!), so I'm glad your
combination at work is working for you.
Apple have a built in syncing facility called "sync services" which
enables syncing between different macs and mobile devices, so syncing
entourage is definitely possible. This is probably easiest with an
iPhone, but can also be done on your touch, a blackberry or even a
palm device. There is also a commercially available program called the
missing sync which enables syncing for many different brands of
smartphone (including the HTC touch pro)
Basic instructions on how to sync contacts and calendars in entourage
with an iphone are here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670
Email sync depends on what kind of email account you have - the best
way is via the use of an IMAP email account like gmail. There are
plenty of ways to get email on your smartphone, for this you need to
elaborate more on what sort of email accounts you want to sync (?your
work account? if so is this a Microsoft Exchange email account - you
may need to talk to your IT guy at work to check this. ?a personal
email account - if so is it a gmail account? Hotmail? your ISP email
account, which one?)
As for SMS - the built in Address book program on your mac will allow
you to SMS by typing on your macbook keyboard so long as your phone
is connected to your macbook via bluetooth. However, if you need to do
this maybe you need a new phone with a touchscreen/keyboard and your
contacts synced with your phone because I generally find it faster to
do it on the phone!
Dave
On 12/01/2010, at 2:54 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote:
At my work I have MS Outlook and am using “Microsoft Activesync” to
synchronise email/Calendar events to an HTC Touch Pro2 docked on to
the PC. This works reliably and quite well though it has no built in
SMS capability from the PC keyboard.
I have a Macbook at home running Entourage as my email client and
wonder if there is an Apple equivalent software to enable local
synchronisation with an iPhone or PDA equivalent and perhaps even
include SMS capability from the Macbook keyboard?
Anyone out there have this setup themselves?
Regards
Peter…
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