iPhone for Work Emails

[Terry W]

Does anyone have any experience using their iPhone for their work email (with Exchange)? I just joined a small company and may be able to use the iPhone for emails instead of having them buy me a new Blackberry.

Most curious about the following:

1) Impact on battery life - mine is already pretty bad with just a Gmail and Mobile Me accounts) and don't need it to get any worse;
2) Reliability - do emails actually come in as reliably as a Blackberry?;
3) Calendar - can you invite attendees in the company's address book?

Thanks in advance!

 

[hsk]

Lots of folks on here use the iPhone with Exchange. I'll give you my experience using hosted Exchange:

1 - Impact could be worse. I have not used MobileMe and I manually pull my GMail. But Exchange does push and therefore can impact the battery. YMMV.

2 - Yes, they hit the phone just about as fast as they do my desktop. Probably similar to RIM - maybe a little slower depending on your Exchange routing.

3 - Yes.

 

[Terry W]

Lots of folks on here use the iPhone with Exchange. I'll give you my experience using hosted Exchange:

1 - Impact could be worse. I have not used MobileMe and I manually pull my GMail. But Exchange does push and therefore can impact the battery. YMMV.

2 - Yes, they hit the phone just about as fast as they do my desktop. Probably similar to RIM - maybe a little slower depending on your Exchange routing.

3 - Yes.

Thanks very much! I forgot to add, if anyone wants to link to another forum on this please feel free rather than taking the time (as hsk did) to type out a reply. I tried searching on the forums and just wasn't getting the right kind of hits.

 

[osxnewbe]

1. If you have the "push" featured enabled, it will reduce the battery life. During the work day, I will have the push on if I am away from my desk but needing to keep up with e-mails. I never have it turned on after hours unless there is a work emergency...

2. Yes. Mine is reliable probably 90% of the time but I think its more issues with the Exchange server and not the iPhone. It syncs up pretty quickly with my work email account. Within 20 seconds of putting a new event receiving a new e-mail, it will show up on the iphone (if push is enabled).

3. Yes. If you have a global address list on the server you can search it to invite attendees.

Overall this works much better than my method before OS 3.0. Then I had to push my e-mails to a gmail account to read them on my phone...

 

[itransition]

Our IT-department provides the customization of Outlook mail with iphone - it's really nice, so I hope you could do so

 

[manx]

Does anyone have any experience using their iPhone for their work email (with Exchange)? I just joined a small company and may be able to use the iPhone for emails instead of having them buy me a new Blackberry.

Most curious about the following:

1) Impact on battery life - mine is already pretty bad with just a Gmail and Mobile Me accounts) and don't need it to get any worse;
2) Reliability - do emails actually come in as reliably as a Blackberry?;
3) Calendar - can you invite attendees in the company's address book?

Thanks in advance!

I just posted this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/858816/