Gizmodo : Nokia Licenses Microsoft ActiveSync for Series 60 and the software isn't even working correctly on the Treo 650. This is pretty amazing to me, because it seems to represent a full frontal assault by Microsoft on phones as corporate e-mail buddies. Then again, based on my own personal experience with the Treo 650 and Exchange ActiveSync, it might represent a subversive plot to undermine other manufacturers products (and, ultimately, their reputations) with a buggy implementation of "push" e-mail that cannot be directly blamed on Microsoft.
After all, Treo 650 users have been begging for assistance on TreoCentral.com and PalmOne's own support site since its release, without a single formal response yet.
So what exactly is the problem? Great question, which no one yet has proffered an answer to...but it manifests itself in apparent corruption in the cached (phoneside) data that triggers either (1) continual reboots whenever a sync is attempted; or (2) a failure to synchronize the Calendar from the phone to the server...although often the server continues to sync down to the phone.
All of this is compounded by the fact that an automated sync schedule never continues for more than 48 hours before the phone quits connecting to the internet and you are forced into manual sync initiations. (That one might be Sprint alone or in connection with Microsoft).
Solution to any/all of the above? Delete all your settings on the Treo, recreate all your e-mail accounts (because you CANNOT selectively delete the cached data for just the ActiveSync account, apparently), and start over. Enjoy the next 48 hours, and repeat...
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