Comments on: ActiveBerry Now AstraSync – Coming This Month http://www.berryreview.com/2008/07/09/activeberry-now-astrasync-coming-this-month/ BlackBerry News and Reviews You Can Use Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: IceMage http://www.berryreview.com/2008/07/09/activeberry-now-astrasync-coming-this-month/#comment-13995 IceMage Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:21:55 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/?p=6174#comment-13995 It seems that AstraSync, while it works FLAWLESSLY with your blackberry, has some very major drawbacks. For one, it runs on the J2ME interface, which implies some slowdown, and loss of battery life. For two, it does not sync with your messages box, so you only get notifications from the program. The icon doesn't change when you have items waiting in your mailbox, and the red light does NOT flash when you have new messages that are unread. The major advantages is that it requires no BES server, read items appear read on your device, as well as on your mailbox (Outlook for example will show messages as read when you read them on your device.) It syncs calendar and contact items flawlessly, even though it does lack some fields, this isn't a big deal since you don't need most of them on your mobile device. It does not sync tasks or notes, but I can't think of any ActiveSync devices (that aren't windows mobile based) that do. Overall, very good, the major drawback is your inbox which doesn't support HTML email or attachments. It seems that AstraSync, while it works FLAWLESSLY with your blackberry, has some very major drawbacks. For one, it runs on the J2ME interface, which implies some slowdown, and loss of battery life. For two, it does not sync with your messages box, so you only get notifications from the program. The icon doesn’t change when you have items waiting in your mailbox, and the red light does NOT flash when you have new messages that are unread.

The major advantages is that it requires no BES server, read items appear read on your device, as well as on your mailbox (Outlook for example will show messages as read when you read them on your device.) It syncs calendar and contact items flawlessly, even though it does lack some fields, this isn’t a big deal since you don’t need most of them on your mobile device.

It does not sync tasks or notes, but I can’t think of any ActiveSync devices (that aren’t windows mobile based) that do.

Overall, very good, the major drawback is your inbox which doesn’t support HTML email or attachments.

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