Using Wireless Devices with Notes
Tom
these days. This all came about because the President of our company
heard about the Blackberry. The Blackberry sounds nice, but it seems
that something like a Palm VIIx or Kyocera Smartphone would be more
versatile. We are using Notes 4.6 and need something that allows
wireless access to at least Notes email, but more would be nice
Here are my thoughts and questions.
1) We could get the Palm VIIx with Palm.net and use POP3 or IMAP4 to
access our Corporate Notes as Palm suggests. This just sounds too
simple to work. I am not the Notes/Domino expert, but I assume we
would have to setup POP3 or IMAP4 access. Right now I do know that
users can "replicate" Notes over the Internet.
2) We could get the Smartphone, along with its Service through someone
like Verizon for example, and I guess we would also need MSD to access
Notes?
3) We could get the Blackberry along with their server side software
to access Notes.
What solution would allow the most Notes access as far as Email,
Calendar, Address Book or other databases?
Which of the solutions allow or don't allow attachments to be picked
up?
Let's say I got MSD, could it be setup to allow Smartphones, Palm
VIIx's and Blackberry's all to access Notes?
Getting the Blackberry and it's server software seems an easy enough
fix to make some of the big guys go "gee whiz", but I am trying to
think long term and find something that would benefit the most users.
Thanks for any input or ideas.
Danny Lawrence
You are wise to examine all you options, I personally think the
Balckberry is a good idea, poorly executed. It is great to have a
dedicated portable e-mail client, but the problem is that then the
answer to every problem becomes "send me an e-mail". Blackberries
can't access the richer aspects of Notes, and everyone ends up drowing
in a sea of e-mail. That and the fact that the "Exchange", "Notes",
and "ISP" versions of the Blackberry are different pieces of hardware
(what's up with that!)
Anyway to answer your question, with R4.6 you are limited in your
choice of handhelds. MSD only "speaks" HDML and most of the WAP
browsers for the Palm only "speak" WML. If you go to R5 and DEAS
(Domino Everyplace Access Server), you will be able to connect to HDML
and WAP browsers.
Other thatn that, your choices are to to to one of the POP3 solutions
on the Palm (which isn't perfect, but is usable)
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John R. Haggis
If you can use TCP/IP (PPP/Internet) for the connection, check out the
Parachute PCMCIA adapter. It'll give you a variety of wireless connectivity
options, and will be released for PalmIII, PalmV, and m505 by this Fall.
The PalmIII model is in production. I use an adapted PalmIII model with my
m505 (adapted plug) with the Novatel Wireless Merlin CDPD card for Web and
Email. The PalmV and m505 -compatible models are in final design stage and
will be in production available for purchase this Fall.
Please contact me by Email for details. Look at our old web site and keep a
watch on the new site. The Parachute is licensed to Parachute Technologies,
LLC for production and distribution.
Old site:
http://www.UniLinear.com
New site (up in about a week):
http://www.ParachuteTech.com
Regards,
John
In article <698a7eab.01071...@posting.google.com>,
MD
http://www.motorola.com/MIMS/PSD/products/enterprise/index.html
It is a "behind-the-firewall" solution and will do Email, Calendar, Address
Book, Databases, Fax/Voicemail integration, etc. It doesn't get near the
pub that Blackberry does, but it does work quite well and has a decent
customer base. Arch Wireless is the biggest promoter of the product right
now. Good luck!
---
MD
Mike
If you have not discounted WAP then my company has a solution that enables
you to provide a WAP portal for all of your existing Domino applications as
well as e-mail, calander and ToDo. You do not need to do any design changes
to any existing applications for this solution to work.
A lot of people discount Wap but the devices (phones) are extremely cheap
compared with IPAQ et al and of course if the device is lost, no one can
gain access to corporate data because its all on the server.
Sign up for an on-line demo at http://www.altisltd.com
Regards
Mike Perrett
Senior Consultant
Altis Consulting Ltd
"Tom" <tb...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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(John Bartley, PC sysadmin, OR-BK, PDX)
hag...@cesium.com (John R. Haggis) wrote on 15 Jul 2001:
>Tom,
>
>If you can use TCP/IP (PPP/Internet) for the connection, check out the
>Parachute PCMCIA adapter. It'll give you a variety of wireless connectivity
>options, and will be released for PalmIII, PalmV, and m505 by this Fall.
Problems w/ Mr. Haggis' solution are
1) mass - heavy
2) complexity - Palm PLUS adapter PLUS card - if any of the 3 fail, your user
is SOL
3) coverage - CDPD coverage is much thinner on the ground than Mobitex. CDMA
coverage is best of all, so the Kyocera is your likely best bet for
comprehensive availability. However, do NOT choose a local carrier like Qwest;
instead, go with Verizon (best coverage) or Sprint (2nd best), as when you are
off-net (i.e., roaming), you have no access.
4) cost - CDPD universal coverage is much more spendy than CDMA's
--
See the uWFP: (unofficial) Wireless FAQ for PalmOS(R) at http://palmwireless.cjb.net
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Allen
There is a product called MOTIVUS which allows you to connect real
time to Exchange, your corporate network and office computer via web
enabled hand helds. No more syncing. You can get email, tasks,
calendar, contacts...even view most email attachments. Nothing needs
to be installed on the device. Can be installed and setup on the
corporate network in minutes. (You can even view MS office documents
off your computer and network)
Their web site www.veratium.com
You can check out a demo at http://www.veratium.com/demo.asp
-VP-
http://www.waplane.com.
Using Waplane you can use all the functionalities of your Domino mail. You
can even read file attachments in your mail.
Waplane automatically recognizes the device you are using and optimizes the
content for your device.
You can allso access any Domino database without changes to the design of
your database.
You can edit documents, create new documents etc
In addition to Domino the latest Waplane version supports POP3/IMAP mail and
LDAP directories.
Waplane has been out since november 1999 and it has currently over 25000
users around the world so it has been througly tested. Waplane runs on all
Domino 5 platforms (Win NT/2000, Linux, etc)
Waplane was finalist in 2000 Lotus Beacon Avards (Lotusphere Europe, Best
Mobile Intranet Solution) and finalist in 2001 Lotus Beacon Avards
(Lotusphere Orlando, Best Messaging Solution)
-VP-
"Tom" <tb...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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(John Bartley, PC sysadmin, OR-BK, PDX)
a ride w/ Galen, "-VP-" <v...@cyberdude.com> wrote:
>If you are looking for WAP acces to Domino check Waplane
>http://www.waplane.com.
Yes, but 75%+ or European and 80%+ of US corporate users whgo start using WAP
have dropped it, as per http://www.commweb.com/article/COM20010822S0007
-VP-
"(John Bartley, PC sysadmin, OR-BK, PDX)" <usb...@my-deja.com> wrote in
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> While waiting on Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:07:14 +0200 in da vastness of space to
hitch
> a ride w/ Galen, "-VP-" <v...@cyberdude.com> wrote:
>
> >If you are looking for WAP acces to Domino check Waplane
> >http://www.waplane.com.
>
> Yes, but 75%+ or European and 80%+ of US corporate users whgo start using
WAP
> have dropped it, as per http://www.commweb.com/article/COM20010822S0007
> --
I think you reffer to this :
>As many as 80%-90% of corporate users that purchased WAP-enabled phones
have abandoned the data capabilities of these phones and are using them for
>voice communications only. Up to 75% of corporate users in Europe and Asia
have stopped using the Internet connectivity of their wireless phones.
Almost all of the new mobile phones sold in Europe come with WAP browser.
You can get WAP browser to practically any modern PDA. It is true that most
of the people are not using the browser in their phones. This is because the
public WAP services are pretty immature and until now the prices of data
calls have been quite high . (This is now changing with packet based mobile
networks for example GPRS).
However this this does not say anything about corporate Intranet usage. The
real benefits of WAP access are in business world. Companies are just
starting to realize the the potential of beeing able to access corporate
data online regardles the time or place. Recent surveys tell that although
WAP phones are not used to acces public internet the corporate Intranet
access is increasing slowly but steadily.
I don't see offline (synchronization) and online (Browser) wireles acces as
competing technologies. I think that they complete each other. I might use
offline for calendar and notebook if I had a poor mobile network but I would
never store critical business information in my PDA which can easily be
stolen.
-VP-