And I use it for this sort of thing frequently. Most services pull down battery life considerably.
It communicates with Exchange Web Services, just like every other Exchange integrating smartphone product. It isn't "scraping Outlook".
>And I use it for this sort of thing frequently.
I've never, ever touched it.
>Most services pull down battery life considerably.
Sure. How, exactly, have you measured this?
- GTalk
- Android Keyboard .
- BatteryLife
With these services up, my Droid loses maybe 40% of its battery life in a day (with minimal usage.)
While I sleep, it rarely consumes more than 10%. The counterexamples have been when I've left the Pandora Service running, as well as the Email Sync service.
So, I test it by enabling the service, changing nothing else about my usage, and watching my battery life take a nosedive.
And on the subject of what exactly it's doing, that's roughly the explanation I got from my friends on the Windows side. We have Exchange disabled outside the firewall, so my phone has to hit up OWA to get the data. Is Exchange Web Services an API available from OWA, but separate from the HTML? It's my understanding that my phone is in fact scraping the HTML.
Frequently in configurations, WebDAV access, Web Services access and ActiveSync are all enabled when OWA is enabled for the Exchange server. It is only in rare conditions when you will see OWA enabled and not one of the three.