Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:17PM Well the service brings promise, and delivers on the core needs. Some features I hope to see in the next release (very soon I hope), for the "P" plans would include:
Junk Mail filter management
Forefront protection/email filtering management
THere are others, but I expect this service to evolve, and hopefully feedback will drive change.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:14PM It is annoying how push email notification of an Exchange email account does not push email to the iPad, when the 3G card is not reloaded. Even when I connect to Wifi, push email does not function on a 3G iPad. It only seems to work if the 3G card is active and charged with credit.
I have not tried removing the SIM to see if that kicks it into life, but very annoying nonetheless.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:03PM I wanted to try a Windows Phone 7 device because I would like to consider this platform, as an alternative, and perhaps a better alternative, for some of my clients. In Australia, it does not have all the bells and whistles of the iPhone. It does not have a cohesive ecosystem, as does the iPhone. I have been let down with a couple of the main applications I use on my iPhone, not being available. Short a music/video streaming service supported natively, is somewhat of a let down.
I think the Apple infrastructure as a whole is a more compelling, well rounded solution. That may go without saying, being that it is mature compared with the Microsoft solution, so we may have to reserve judgement further, and wait for release 3 (Tango?) and Nokia'sentry into the Windows Phone market.
It is painful to listen to US commentary on Windows Phone when the ecosystems differ wildly across countries and regions. Apple definitely appears to have it together worldwide.
I want to believe....
Monday, April 25, 2011 at 8:44PM A few things I would like to be included in my next gadget.
As a mobile device gadget, it needs to have:
LTE/4G mobile service capability - Full speed otherwise no point
Battery life to at least get through a full day ~10 hours
IPv6 - A given but best to make sure
I think that the front runner would have to be the next iPhone. Ive invested in the app ecosystem, and the integraton with the iPad has made the switch between the two devices and form factors seamless. Apple has done a great job with driving features, interation and expansion in apps and services.
Its a defininte if it has LTE.
Michael Mansell
Very bad of me to leave a post half finished. I did not mean to publish. Turns out I went and got an iPhone 4. Not so happy with this upgrade. It has been much less stable than the others. THe killer feature has been Wifi Hotspot. It is annoying how I have to go into the hotspot page to actually enable a connection on devices that have it listed as a wifi connection, but that aside, it is a very useful feature.
I have upgraded my iPhone4 and iPad(1) to IOS5. My iPad is suffering from some sort of lag, and not much has really changed. However, the biggest improvement by far, on the iPhone is the notification service. That is so much of an improvement over what was there before, it alone is worth the upgrade.
I did not experience pain as others did with the upgrade, but I think that was largely due to traffic volume on the initial release. I will be trying out other features such as Wifi Sync and iCloud integration in the not too distant future, so may have more to say about that.
That's all I have for now.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 7:57PM I was perhaps somewhat prejudiced by the first unit we evaluated. However, I have to admit that the features of the NAS are extensive, and once configured it provides a lot of flexibility in allocating storage based on shares and access control through AD users and groups.
All in all, a good device that complements a windows environment. I am yet to evaluate the performance, but I am happy with this unit, compared to the first.