Comments on: Droid Users: Accessing Exchange Will (Naturally) Cost You

By: Philip Pleiss

Philip Pleiss — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:46:19 +0000

Expecting Verizon, (who holds an unofficial monopoly over many areas of the United States since they bought alltel) to do anything other than nickel-and-dime their customers to death is like expecting the pope to convert to islam. Verizon is a large enough corporation that they have learned that unless there is a very clear law against it or it is an election season they can do anything they want and the customers have no choice but to pay. To add even more insults on top of the fee scrounging they are doing on android is that with other smartphones like blackberries they purposefully block all activation data from BES servers in order to extort more fees.

By: Michael Woolaver

Michael Woolaver — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:39 +0000

That’s the verizon way squeeze every dollar out of you….. after my contract is up it goodbye verizon.

By: lol@nexeo

lol@nexeo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:06:24 +0000

Wow nexeo, learn about the protocol. Your “constant” data stream is a couple of bits and doesn’t amount to more then maybe a meg a month. LOL@U. Your so smart.

By: damntech

damntech — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:51 +0000

Plainly false. I am paying $70 per month right now and can connect to my exchange server with no problems. I also vpn and rdp to internal servers once again, no problems. I had no problems typing this message from the Moto Droid either. While doing both!

By: torello

torello — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:16 +0000

iDon’t charge extra for exchange support.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:53:38 +0000

Explain to me why the Exchange server could not be configured for IMAP connections. Then Email app in Android configured to access accordingly via IMAP.

By: michaelk

michaelk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:18:50 +0000

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355249,00.asp

says personal plans are 30 no matter if you use exchange or not and business plans are 45 whether you use exchange or not.

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By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Androidfan: THANKS!!

By: David

David — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:45:02 +0000

The ignorance on this board is amazing. Read what “Big Red” said – he is right on. VZW is charging extra for a very specific service, not data access. If you don’t want it, don’t get it.

For my part, I am glad the data-only plan includes it.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:31 +0000

Even if I wanted work emails synced to my personal phone, my company probably wouldn’t allow it. I’m about as worried about Exhange on a Driod, as I am about not being able to use Blackberry Messenger on it.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:30:45 +0000

I agree with Omar, the US seem to get a pretty unfair deal on data bundles. I can’t imagine seeing any UK provider charging even $30 – a little over £18 for a data package, that’s ridiculously high. I pay £5 (just over $8) for my “unlimited” data package.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:27 +0000

AT&T does the exact same thing and even with the iPhone I can confirm. You can connect to your work email via active synch with only the $30 data plan. You do not have to get the $45 plan to connect to an exchange server.

I repeat; the $45 plan is not required in order to connect to an Exchange Server.

By: snipercon

snipercon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:35 +0000

Anyone know about the possibility of the $50 data only plan????
Could it be used with VOIP such as Gizmo5 etc?
The cheapest Voice and data plan is $70, but with the data only, VOIP, googlevoice etc, could one not use this phone for web, phone, and text for just the $50 data only plan???

By: SharonW

SharonW — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:09:09 +0000

@Del:
It seems there’s a lot of varying information about Verizon’s plans. I don’t know what to believe anymore. I went to their site and under Plans/Individual/Show All I come up with $69.99 for 450 mins. plus free mobile to mobile, unlimited data, unlimited text, unlimited email, unlimited picture and video messaging.

To others here as well…is there something I’m missing?

Here:
verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/plansingleline.jsp?lid=//global//plans//voice+plans//individual" rel="nofollow">http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/plansingleline.jsp?lid=//global//plans//voice+plans//individual

By: Randall

Randall — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:09:00 +0000

One more thing. THIS IS INCLUDED in the Email or Email and Messaging plan which bundles everything together. The $45 is the data feature addon to existing voice plans.