I know this is a little late but better late than not at all...
 
I left Palm 2+ years ago when I realized that to stay up with the business world, I needed a smart phone. After quite a bit  of investigation I went with Blackberry. One of the determining factors was being able to sync with Outlook. BB does that seamlessly. Abolutely wonderful. Many GTD methods, even a white paper form DA on using Outlook & BB for GTD.
 
About 2-3 months ago it became obvious to me that BB (as a viable smart phone provider) was dying. They've had problems for several yearn now and the major world wide outages was the final straw for me. I detest Apple so my only real choice was Android. In a word...YUCK!! Android won't sync with Outlook without some sort of intermediate sync. Fields & other items that won't transfer and other issues. Android is so locked into Google that it hurts.
 
After a couple months of anguish and trial & error, I finally have a document manager and task manager that works but not without separate manual syncs. If you go the Android route, be prepared for a steep learning curve. On a positive note, the amount of apps is unbelieveable. Sort of like the early days of Palm when everyone was writing and porting new apps for Palm. Too bad Palm didn't keep up with the changing world. I personally feel that BB is going down the same path.
 
Now my disclaimers...IMHO...YMMV...etc.
 
ken b
(started with a Palm 1000, ended with a Centro)

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I followed much the same path. The Palm was a great device. They provided 2
very straight-forward ways to sync-Outlook and the Palm Desktop. I have used
a BlackBerry for the last 6 years and love it. As you said, Outlook syncs
beautifully with it.

There is a program called gSyncit ($20) by Fieldston Software that syncs all
parts of Outlook. It will also sync Tasks with ToodleDo (which is much
better than Google Tasks). ToodleDo is free. On Toodledo's website you will
see programs for the handheld that will sync ToodleDo to the handheld. I
guess we are really saying the same thing.several hoops to jump through if
you want to sync with an Android.

As for Apple, my blog post from a couple of days ago is all about that
encounter (http://frankbuck.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-outlook.html).

I am hoping RIM will get things together. For those who are more interested
in using the Smartphone to increase productivity instead of play games, the
BlackBerry is a great device. I know there aren't 450,000 apps for it, but
then again, just how many do you need. Give me Vlingo, Poynt, Dropbox,
BlackBerry Travel, Ubersocial, and I am good to go. Being able to sync all
modules of Outlook with the BlackBerry gives me an amazing amount of data.

Please continue to post your experiences with syncing your device of choice
with Outlook. It's too bad not more people truly understand how good Outlook
is.

Frank Buck

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