iPod touch and iPhone help!

jenko

I have a few questions I can't seem to get answered so I hope someone on here may be able to help. Firstly in regards to the iPod touch, can you connect to the full internet at all times? And the same question for the iPhone?

Can I also connect either or both to my work emails so I can receive emails when I am away from the office?

Can I connect either or both to my work calendar - this doesn;t have to be live, I don't mind synching it manually at the end of every day etc.

Thanks!

isofa

iPod Touch you can whenever you have a WiFi signal.

iPhone anywhere you like, providing you have a phone signal supporting the connection and of course providing your contract supports it (and I assume you are on the O2 one so you have unlimited downloads/bandwidth).

The iPod Touch calendar had some functions disabled, but it's recently been updated: http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/whatsnew.html

The iPhone has just had a software update to give more features: http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtourupdate1/large.html

Which may, or may not help!

Are you syncing on a Mac or PC, and to what software for your desktop calendar?

warrend

can you get your work e-mails currently using a standard web browser when not connected to your work network whilst out of the office (e.g. no VPN)?

jenko

Hi - I use a PC at work and Outlook. I can use webmail to check my emails from home - can that help?

The most important thing to me is the calendar as I quite often tell someone I can do something at the weekend then get into work and check my calendar and I am already doing something....

Thanks for your help!

isofa

It can definitely sync with Outlook, using iTunes, from the blurb:

"Using its built-in calendar, iPhone lets you check your appointments with the flick of a finger. iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer — iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC — just like it does with your contacts. If you don’t already use one of these applications to manage your appointments, now is a great time to start, so you’ll be ready to sync when your iPhone arrives. If you choose not to use a calendar program, that’s OK. You’ll be able to enter appointments directly into the iPhone calendar."

Instructions are here from Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305741

You can also access your webmail directly in Safari on the iPhone, just as you'd do at home.

jenko

cool - ok that looks good then.

Any reasons why I shouldn't get the iPhone?

isofa

If you can afford it, then no, it is a beautiful device, but I couldn't warrant the expensive contract personally... Although there will be a newer version out in a few months (so rumours say) supporting 3G, so it might be worth waiting. But there is always something new on the horizon, so you have to take the plunge if you want something and it fulfils a need.

jenko

Contract is £45 a month and I am paying £35 already, and the £45 offers me more mins and texts so thats fine.

I heard the new model will be in September.

Will you not be able to update the current model with 3G, and what are the benefits of 3G?

Thanks!