G1 News

The number one most wanted feature from T-Mobile G1 owners who wished to use it for business as well as pleasure was Microsoft Exchange support.

The Omio interview with T-Mobile head Robin O’Kelly revealed that it was definitely on their radar, although not something that was going to be rectified immediately.

E-mail synchronisation firm Cemaphore Systems have beaten them to it with MailShadowG, a program which allows for the matching of the T-Mobile G1 to the calendar, message and scheduling functionality of the Exchange system.

However, the only caveat attached to MailShadowG is that it is not quite direct syncing between a handset and the mail server, in the manner that Microsoft ActiveSync is for example.

This program rather requires a PC running Microsoft Outlook, and mails which are received there are then pushed to Gmail, and then out to the G1…all in the blink of an eye (almost) and in both directions.

It is a solution which requires a PC on all of the time, which is obviously not quite as elegant a solution as people are looking for, but it works well right now.

There is another little catch in that it also costs a fee of $49.95 a year, but there is an introductory fee of $29.95 until the end of November, and also a 15 day free trial of the service.

All of these are available from cemaphore.com.

Have a try, let us know how you find it!