I just set up Exchange ActiveSync, and here are my thoughts:
1. Very easy to set up. My company does not use security policies, though. I just typed in server, domain, username, password, and email address, and everything worked flawlessly.
2. Emails sync with Outlook (both send and receive) about as fast as they did on my BlackBerry with BES server.
3. Calendar stuff syncs fine and I have had no problems yet, but it seems to take a little bit longer than email to sync. Maybe a few minutes or so. (or maybe I just had a weaker signal when I was messing around with the calendar, so everything was just slower).
4. Folder view for emails is far superior to BlackBerry. I can easily view the directory structure of Outlook and view the emails within each individual directory.
5. I don't use notes or tasks, so I can't comment on that.
6. Overall, I will have to say that my experience rivals my corporate email experience on BlackBerry, which is a huge surprise. I thought BlackBerry was far and away the best device for email, but I guess I was wrong.
On a side note, I still think that BlackBerry's notification profiles kill Android's notification profiles, even with the various apps out there for Android.
1. Very easy to set up. My company does not use security policies, though. I just typed in server, domain, username, password, and email address, and everything worked flawlessly.
2. Emails sync with Outlook (both send and receive) about as fast as they did on my BlackBerry with BES server.
3. Calendar stuff syncs fine and I have had no problems yet, but it seems to take a little bit longer than email to sync. Maybe a few minutes or so. (or maybe I just had a weaker signal when I was messing around with the calendar, so everything was just slower).
4. Folder view for emails is far superior to BlackBerry. I can easily view the directory structure of Outlook and view the emails within each individual directory.
5. I don't use notes or tasks, so I can't comment on that.
6. Overall, I will have to say that my experience rivals my corporate email experience on BlackBerry, which is a huge surprise. I thought BlackBerry was far and away the best device for email, but I guess I was wrong.
On a side note, I still think that BlackBerry's notification profiles kill Android's notification profiles, even with the various apps out there for Android.