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First the background: I am reasonable savy on the computer and tablet, yet resisted the siren call of the smartphone until yesterday. Starting school for second career in CAD in a couple months.
Phone: Kyocera Android on Verizon
Until now I have been suspicious and avoided using cloud and online e-mail services. (I use the Outlook 2007 program for calendar, email, and contacts.) Yes, I am old fashioned and don’t fully trust my info floating in the cloud, or opening a web page to write an e-mail.
The best I can figure is that there is no easy, reliable, and FREE method of just syncing all my stuff onto the Smartphone directly..like my old palm devices used to do so well. I uploaded contacts to the Verizon backup svc so that’s done but if I change one (Computer or phone), the other isn’t changed without aggravation.
So here’s the question, assuming that I will have to get over my reluctance to have things synced over the net, what is the best option? Gmail? Outlook.com?
I am not a power user that needs the calendar to show full daily schedules, just appointments, B’days, holidays, etc.
How do you handle e-mails? I write many, and like to keep them. (I am also an author, working on third book, my e-mails are useful to my writing.) I have thousands in outlook, The search function works well, I don’t like the idea of having them in the cloud where they could disappear.
What would you suggest?
Grizz
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