Gregg Eldred

Looking at the news surrounding the announcement of the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0 release, it is nice to see that it will also feature Lotus Notes synchronization. This was announced at Lotusphere 2009 but the delivery date was not specified, only "sometime in 2009." Now we know that it will be available in June.

Leveraging ActiveSync will mean that your iPhone users will be able to natively synchronize their Lotus mail, contacts, and calendar on both the Macintosh and PC. Further, Apple will enable a landscape keyboard. option to ease typing. This is excellent news for your iPhone users. And it is great to see another product announced at Lotusphere come to fruition.

Link: National Business Review: Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0 - and some nice surprises

Technorati tag: iPhone Lotus Notes

Comment posted by David Leedy03/18/2009 05:19:35 PM
Homepage: http://www.lotusnotebook.com

I don't get it. Did Apple announce anything about "Lotus Notes Support" and I missed it? I read the article but don't understand the Notes reference. I thought Travely was going to make a Domino sever look like an Exchange server to the iPhone. Where did "desktiop sync" come in? Not that I wouldn't want it. I'm just confused.

I don't understand the article. It mentions Lotus Notes desktop syncing in the same paragraph of the improved Landscape Keyboard. What do they have to do together? If feel like a mistake or joke or something...


Here's the paragraph from the linked article:

Landscape keyboard
A landscape keyboard is now available for email and txt, which will make life easier for thumbers. IBM Lotus Notes desktop sync support has been added for Mac and PC, and also extends to the new landscape keyboard option.

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Comment posted by Gregg Eldred03/18/2009 10:42:23 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf

@David: I certainly agree with you on the wording of the article. I knew that there was a reference to Lotus Notes in it, but it took me two reads to actually see it. Strange way of announcing that feature.

Also, I am not sure what to make of the announcement, as nowhere was there a mention of "desktop synch" in the announcement at LS09. Either something has changed, or the press is confusing Traveler/ActiveSynch with some sort of Desktop Manager-like software. Perhaps someone will be able to clarify this for us.

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Comment posted by Oliver Regelmann03/19/2009 06:19:17 AM
Homepage: http://regelmann.ch

I think someone is mistaking "Notes sync" for "Lotus Notes sync" here.

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Comment posted by Brian03/19/2009 04:47:18 PM

yeah, they were talking about the "Notes" application on the iPhone syncing back with iTunes. Nothing to do with Lotus Notes.

transcript:
http://www.24100.net/2009/03/transcript-of-the-apple-iphone-os-30-event/

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