Hewlett Packard has made the puzzling decision to stop bundling Microsoft Outlook with its Ipaq line of Windows Mobile devices starting in April. Customers are instead told that they can purchase Outlook through Microsoft’s website.Hewlett Packard has made the puzzling decision to stop bundling Microsoft Outlook with its Ipaq line of Windows Mobile devices starting in April. Customers are instead told that they can purchase Outlook through Microsoft’s website.
But here’s the thing. A PDA or smartphone is of limited use if you can’t synchronize it with your desktop. Try transferring hundreds or thousands of contacts from your old device to your new one without Outlook.
Sure, you could use BirdieSync or Finch Sync to synchronize your PDA with Thunderbird. But after dropping $300 to $600 on a new device from HP, it’s a bit baffling that the company would tell you to cough up some more money to make it useful. We can only hope that this doesn’t become a trend among PDA manufacturers.
[via Pocket PC Thoughts]