What with my sadly discontinued 9105 Pearl keyboard playing up I'm looking around at what's new and find BES Express to link to my MS Exchange Server is as good as dead and will be switched off by BlackBerry in 2015, so effectively we're all forced to go down the new system where I gather BlackBerry's proprietary and very reliable, robust, MS Exchange syncing software and server has been ditched in favour of just piggy backing off Microsoft's ActiveSync.
All I know is, I used to have a Palm organiser and ActiveSync was flaky even with a direct cable connection to the PC, and I now also have an ipad where again ActiveSync is so flaky its as good as useless; things sometimes sync, sometimes only sync one way, but most of the time it just completely fails and gives up unless you frequently reboot/reinstall (or whatever the correct Apple term for that action is)
So ....
How does BlackBerry's cheapening / dumbing down to ActiveSync from their previously reliable and robust system really work in the real world? Can it be trusted? Given Nokia uses Windows is optimum robustness of syncing to be had only with a Nokia or other MS-based phone?
All I know is, I used to have a Palm organiser and ActiveSync was flaky even with a direct cable connection to the PC, and I now also have an ipad where again ActiveSync is so flaky its as good as useless; things sometimes sync, sometimes only sync one way, but most of the time it just completely fails and gives up unless you frequently reboot/reinstall (or whatever the correct Apple term for that action is)
So ....
How does BlackBerry's cheapening / dumbing down to ActiveSync from their previously reliable and robust system really work in the real world? Can it be trusted? Given Nokia uses Windows is optimum robustness of syncing to be had only with a Nokia or other MS-based phone?