Does BCM synchronize with the Palm Pilot?

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I want to maintain business contacts with Outlook Business Contact Manager
and Treo 650 Smartphone. Is there any experience with this out there? I
haven't yet purchased a new phone and I'm an old Palm Pilot user, so should I
go to Pocket PC or can I stay with Palm OS and synchronize with BCM?
 
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Tim P via OfficeKB.com

The current hotsynch software that came with your Palm Pilot is called Pocket
Mirror standard edition and it is made for Palm by a very reliable 3rd party
developer named Chapura. I am assuming that you are currently synching your
Palm Pilot with Outlook which allows you to synch a somewhat limited number
of Outlook fields between your Palm and the
native Outlook default Contact folder only. This limited number of fields
is limited due to the native Palm handheld PIM applications that do not
contain as many contact data fields as the full Outlook app on your PC. You
should note that this standard Pocket Mirror edition of synch software will
NOT synch at all with your BCM Business Contacts folder because BCM is an
entirely separate, add-in database into the native Outlook application. In
order to synch your separate BCM Business Contact folder onto a Palm device
you will have to go onto Chapura's website at www.chapura.com and purchase
their most advanced, fully featured, upgrade version of synch software that
Chapura makes for Outlook called Key Suite ($70). Key Suite will synch
multiple Outlook Contact folders including the BCM Business Contact folder
data and best of all is that it will synch ALL of each Contact record's data
fields into more robust Key Suite PIM apps on the Palm that replace the
more limited native Palm apps. I have used Key Suite with my Treo and it
performs flawless and
reliably. It is the closest thing to carrying most of Outlook on your
handheld. You will also find Chapura to have superb support service. I
cannot recommend them highly enough based upon my own positive real world
user experience.

Best wishes,

-THP
 
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Tim P via OfficeKB.com

Additional comment:

For $50 you can get the Pocket Mirror Professional which has less features
than their $70 Key Suite application and yet will still synch with the BCM
Business Contacts folder.

-THP
 

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