Goodlink Question

Duke4062 · 03-04-2007, 03:37 AM

I just got my brand new Sprint Motorola Q and I see there is a new app called Goodlink installed for E-mail. Would there be any use for this for a non-corporate email user. Or should I just erase to free up room?

MrClean · 03-04-2007, 04:03 PM

I installed Goodlink for work use, for me it was a bad idea, I don't need to stay that up to date with what's going on at work.
The Goodlink app is very invasive, it pretty much takes over your phone. I don't use my contacts from Outlook (at work) for my personal contacts. With Goodlink installed the 'Contact's soft-key takes you to your work contacts (which for me was annoying). Your personal contacts are still there, it's just a pain to get too. The app also drains your battery fairly quickly.
If you need to stay connected with your work info, then Goodlink is great. But it wasn't for me and trying to uninstall it was a nightmare, finally did a Master Reset, which returns the phone to the original condition it was in when shipped. It took me 2 days to reinstall everything I had put on it.

linny812 · 03-04-2007, 09:41 PM

I thought you had to have Goodlink installed at the corporate level in order to use it on your Q. Is that not true?

MrClean · 03-05-2007, 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by linny812

I thought you had to have Goodlink installed at the corporate level in order to use it on your Q. Is that not true?

The Sprint Q comes with a Get Goodlink icon, if you click that, then it will prompt you for a validation code, which is assigned to you by your company. The company I work for has a link that we go to and request an account.

ZATZAi · 03-05-2007, 05:19 AM

Even though I'm not a corporaate user myself, I do like getting some emails quickly, but I used ne of the myriad of exchange services out there rather than a the non-native goodlink system. My battery life is fine too, it's certainly better than having the phone do a POP email check every 15 minutes.

Duke4062 · 03-05-2007, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by MrClean

The Sprint Q comes with a Get Goodlink icon, if you click that, then it will prompt you for a validation code, which is assigned to you by your company. The company I work for has a link that we go to and request an account.

So I have no use for it and should erase it to free up room?

Duke4062 · 03-05-2007, 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by ZATZAi

Even though I'm not a corporaate user myself, I do like getting some emails quickly, but I used ne of the myriad of exchange services out there rather than a the non-native goodlink system. My battery life is fine too, it's certainly better than having the phone do a POP email check every 15 minutes.

What exchange services are u talking about and why are they better than a pop check, battery life?

MrClean · 03-05-2007, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by Duke4062

So I have no use for it and should erase it to free up room?

It should just be a link so it won't take up much room, but I got rid of mine, just so I don't hit it by accident. I'm now convienced that Goodlink is the devil...

ZATZAi · 03-05-2007, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Duke4062

Originally Posted by ZATZAi

Even though I'm not a corporate user myself, I do like getting some emails quickly, but I used one of the myriad of exchange services out there rather than a the non-native Goodlink system. My battery life is fine too, it's certainly better than having the phone do a POP email check every 15 minutes.

What exchange services are u talking about and why are they better than a pop check, battery life?

POP is supposed to be the worst way to transfer email, though the most widespread. The inability to mark mail as read and/or manage email and have it reflected on the server is one thing. As far as a mobile device is concerned, POP is the least efficient data wise, so more information has to be processed and transfered, using more of your monthly bandwidth (Though the difference is negligible) but also using more time, and thusly slowly eating more battery.

IMAP in contrast is better, changes on the client are reflected on the server (Mark it as read here, it shows as read everywhere), and the data transfer is more efficient, so it uses a little less power than POP.

Or so I have read...

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Now Exchange is a Microsoft protocol and is natively supported by the Q among other devices, it's basically IMAP Live. Any changes you make on a client show on the server and other clients, it too has an efficient way of transferring data. But the big difference is this... with Exchange, unlike POP & IMAP, you don't have to poll the server every couple minutes (Commonly referred to as PULL Email), instead the email is ent to you when the server receives it, like an SMS (This is PUSH Email), you can also set it so that email you send out gets sent right away as well.

This is something Blackberry users know and love, and it's relatively new to the Windows Mobile world. It uses more power than having no email at all, but less than polling the POP/IMAP servers every couple of minutes.

Most people have this setup through their corporate office but you can do it on an individual level as well, either with (I believe) Outlook 2003 or greater, or a hosted Exchange service like Mail2Web.Com which costs about $2 a month. An Exchange service will also let you sync your contacts and calendar OTA if you want, and the email supports any Outlook folders and rules you may have setup.

I don't know how Goodlink works exactly, but it looks like its "trying to be" like Exchange.

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Now if you want to setup POP or IMAP on you're phone it should be relatively straight forward how to go about doing it (Unless it's Gmail, in which case, refer to the link in my signature), just be sure to actually read all the options on the menu prompts as you set things up, lots of people go with settings they don't want accidentally.

If you want to setup Exchange, I suggest a Personal Exchange account from Mail2Web.Com for $1.99 a month, it's what I and several others use, you can have your POP accounts forward to Mail2Web as well if you want to keep the same email, then have Mail2Web mask itself as your email of choice for the outgoing message.

Duke4062 · 03-05-2007, 06:41 PM

This is something Blackberry users know and love, and it's relatively new to the Windows Mobile world. It uses more power than having no email at all, but less than polling the POP/IMAP servers every couple of minutes.

Most people have this setup through their corporate office but you can do it on an individual level as well, either with (I believe) Outlook 2003 or greater,

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Response to quote 1:Yah, I had a pearl and it was self-explanitory and emails came to me automatically.
Response to quote 2:Also I bought windows xp and outlook 2003, are u saying that outlook will give me the push email I want?