Chris Adams

The iPhone's new Exchange support works really well: bidirectional pushes take only a second or two as promised, the contact app has seamless searching of our corporate directory and so on, exactly as demoed. Unfortunately, there's a major drawback: once you enable Exchange, the iPhone inexplicably disables the local calendar and address book support. Initially I had assumed that this was an unfortunate compromise to get it out the door by July 11th, along with other notable omissions like tasks and attendee information but it's actually inexcusable: the mobile iCal has full support for multiple calendars if you pay Apple $100/year for Mobile Me. ActiveSync isn't the only trick Apple learned from Microsoft…