[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Hi Saminegm,

This information here may answer your question, and provides details on how to achieve this:

http://www.vickylalwani.com/2009/02/11/how-to-sync-outlook-calendar-to-your-iphone-over-wireless-3g/

You have touched on one of the weakest area in iPhone here, and is a good point for anyone to know all the pros and cons of each platform.

The snoozing function only works with alarm but not on the calendar reminder AFAIK. The standard calendar in iPhone lets you set up two reminders only for each appointment/task. Reminders are in the form of pop up message with audible alarm and/or vibration and the pop up message stays on the locked screen, untill you deliberately clear it by sliding/unlocking on the locked screen. If one wishes to have audible reminder again beyond the second reminder, it is necessary with the standard calendar to edit the appointment time, which is a four stroke exercise. (one stroke to slide and unlock the phone, second stroke to edit, third to turn the time dial to say 10 minutes or whatever delayed duration you want, and fourth to save). In this regard, it is weak by winmo standard, which allows you to by just one single stroke enable another reminder.

As a way to minimise the risk of missing any appointment, I install a third party application (you need to jailbreak your phone to install this from the Cydia application store) called "RemindYou", that displays my appointments on the lock screen.

Since I'm quite new to iPhone, there may be other applications which I'm not aware of yet. I'm also not familiar with what's in firmware 3.0 which is due for release next month. Anyone with more information please share.

The calendar and email are fast and reliable from my own experience, although I would not say that I get too many mails a day. I have five email accounts set up in my iPhone but only three of them are really active. My accounts include gmail account, yahoo accounts, and couple of POP3 accounts. One of the yahoo accounts does have hundreds of junk mails being sent to it every day. I do try to delete them off the server to reduce the size of the file as much as possible.

As for battery, I find iPhone's battery to be longer lasting than HD's, however, for my use (which is almost continuous), it is insufficient to last the whole day. With my HD, I carried a spare battery, which I simply swap in when I run out of battery (Before I switched to iPhone, I typically neeed two change per day). iPhone's non-swappable battery can be a problem, so I try to plug into AC source whenever I can. In the car that's not an issue. I don't always run out of battery with iPhone though - it depends on how heavily I use it. With my iPhone, I normally switch on my wifi and 3G throughout the day and iPhone does an exceptional job in switching between the two - much better than winmo device could. With my HD, I could not afford to switch on my wifi too often as it drains battery too quickly.

I assume you mean over the air here. You might find this link useful.

http://mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/10/02/iphone-task-sync-with-exchange-over-the-air-now-available/

We can set both the start and end time. You can also set up repeating task such as every day, every week, every two weaks, etc.

Many banks have released special applications to perform banking functions using iPhone, rather than using the generic web pages to do it. You also get very good share trading applications, stock monitoring applications, and financial news feed. You could also find lots of applications to locate ATMs for banks. For banks which have not released special banking applications yet, you might also find Safari to be more capable, as compared to Opera Mobile, in handling the login screen, hence enabling you to do internet banking as if you're using the desktop browser to do so.

Hope I've answered all your questions. Also, having mostly winmo experience and being so new to iPhone, I might not be aware of all the solutions out there yet. I encourage anyone more experienced than me to beef up on the answers.