Staying connected with a Windows Mobile phone

The need for mobile computing is becoming more prevalent every day. As people do more and more work away from their office, they need a way to stay connected and up to date on tasks and meetings. Today’s mobile devices are delivering these critical services, and they are getting integrated into cellular phones to provide an always connected lifestyle.

If you purchase a cell phone with an integrated PDA that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system you can stay constantly connected to your Exchange server at your office. This means is all of your email, contacts, and tasks that you see on your computer at the office will also be seen on your Windows Mobile device. If you have a secretary that updates your calendar at the office you will see those changes, as they are made, on your Windows Mobile device. This also works in the opposite direction. If you make a change on your Windows Mobile device, the secretary will see the change at the office.

To take full advantage of all of these features of Windows Mobile you must have a Microsoft Exchange server at your office. This server acts as a host for all of your information. The Windows Mobile device connects to this server over the Internet to synchronize with all of your information. Another benefit of having this Exchange server at your office is that if you do not have a Windows Mobile device, you can connect to it from any Internet connected computer with a web browser. You can log into what is called “Outlook Web Access” and have access to all of your email, calendars, tasks, etc. Outlook Web Access looks and feels as though you were running Microsoft Outlook, but in reality it is all inside a web browser window.

A Windows Mobile device not only keeps you connected with up to date information, but it allows you to read and edit Word documents and Excel files. This can be an immensely useful feature if you are trying to conduct business away from your office. Someone can email you a word or excel file and you can open, read, make changes, and send it back to the person anywhere and at anytime.

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