Had exchange, gmail,and hotmail setup and working since two plus weeks ago. Went to check at lunch and all gone.

WTF!!!!!!!!!

Let me start by saying this is the best smart phone I have ever had. Of course there are problems but all but one (hardware keyboard design) can be fixed with software patches.

These are the main problems I have been having.

1. I have had to force quit the email app many times, usually when the app is in the background.

2. Yesterday the phone lost all email settings and when I launched the email app the phone prompted me to set up an account?

3. Push from our company’s Exchange 2007 server works when it wants to. (This is definitely a big problem being in my position; I need to get email alerts immediately) Most of the time to receive new email I have to refresh the account I hope there is a fix soon. I am a system admin for my company and personally set up the Exchange 2007 server. The server works solid with iPhones, WinMo phones, and even “plays” well with our BES server. I don’t believe this problem is just a case of a misconfiguration on either the phone or Exchange side.

Is anyone else having these issues? Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions to these issues? Also is there anyway to get spell check for email, it is imperative in most corporate environments.

I also see that the “FIX” will come out after most droid owners 30 day return period is up. How convenient.

You could also use Gmail to retrieve and send your email from your business email address. Nobody would know the difference because everything would still go through your original email address with gmail sending and recieving them. I did this for a friend who didn’t want the hassel of changing email addresses. That also worked very well.

But there are a couple of things you should know:

DoubleTwist is working on enabling sync for mac users. So if you’re like me, that would require you to drag and drop each song/file into DW by hand. There was no way I was going to do that with our massive library.

So, I had to dust off my old xp box and hope shared libraries from our macs would be accessible on the xp box. Since they weren’t, I had to load our itunes backup onto my xp box. From there, DoubleTwist worked to flawlessly and speedily sync my entire music library to my droid.

After I worked through a few of my kinks, DoubleTwist proved itself to be an elegant solution to a problem none of us should have to endure, imho.

Sound quality seems excellent. (Was worried about this because some people said that the conversion from itunes would compromise quality.) But if vzw/moto/google really want an “iPhone killer,” they really should make this process easier for average users and, for the love of god, IMPROVE THE MEDIA PLAYER!!!!!

Now for the rant: Dear Apple: iQuit! I’ve paid you thousands of dolars for hardware and music files, and might have bought an iphone if you hadn’t tried to force me into a contract with the WORST wireless carrier in my town, so I have to spend an entire swunday resurrecting a 7-year old xp box from retirement to do a job my $3k mbp should have handled in seconds! Hey Apple, you suck!

If you really want to call them something else, you can rename the contact after the profile is linked.