Microsoft Outlook Mobile Service Reviews

Summary of review published by Computing Unplugged — June, 2007

Outlook Mobile Service: a low-bandwidth connection to your mobile life

Outlook users have always been plagued with a hot issue: how to maintain access to Outlook data when they're mobile. Finally, a solution has been developed to address that problem, and it’s called Outlook Mobile Service (OMS). It's a free Outlook 2007 add-in that enables users to create both SMS and MMS, and communicate with service providers to move these messages to and from mobile phones and desktops. It also features a new mobile address book. OMS has the ability to forward reminders, calendar summaries, and selected email messages to any mobile that supports text messaging. This eliminates the need for a high-end phone with a high-end price, and a high-speed data connection to get crucial Outlook data while on the move. However, reading emails on the phone is still far from impractical, but that’s a limitation of the SMS format rather than a fault of the add-in itself. OMS can’t give the full experience of Outlook 2007 on a mobile device. But, if one spends a lot of time away from the computer, and wants a simple and inexpensive way to get Outlook notifications and calendar information on your mobile phone, Outlook Mobile Service may be exactly the service you need.
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