I just got the new LG Quantum Phone with Windows Mobile 7.

To my up most disappointed there is no option to directly sync your normal Outlook with the phone. For all those interested here is a walk through I found:

And it was waaaaaaaaaaay more complicated than I had hoped to find a solution on google, thats why I have written this post.

I think the confusion comes from both yes and no being an insufficient answer for the question overall. It has to be broken down into parts.

The Short Answer

You don't need to change your e-mail account. You would just have another account used for syncing information. Windows Phone 7 let's you have multiple accounts on the phone
The phone downloads your mail directly. You don't need outlook for this
Your Calendar information can sync from Outlook to the phone via Outlook connector
Your contact information can sync from Outlook to your phone via Outlook connector
There's not a Tasks equivalent on Windows Phone 7
Notes from outlook won't sync, but OneNote documents do

Detailed Answer

Windows Phone 7 is cloud (Internet) oriented. Most of the data transfers you do on it will involve an internet connection. It does not sync to outlook directly. Instead it syncs to an online account. You'll primarily sync media via a tethered connection to the computer. Everything else is over the cloud.

If you put your account settings for your mail account on your phone it will download the e-mail directly. No syncing with the desktop is involved there.

Contact and calendar information can sync from outlook to a live account. You would then use this live account to sync that same information on your phone. Note this doesn't mean that you would need toCHANGE your e-mail account. You could use what ever e-mail account you like for sending mail from the phone.

Notes from outlook won't sync to the phone. Instead you'll want to use Office Live. With Office Live your Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents sync to your phone over the internet. So you could go from editing a document on your desktop to editing it on your phone without the need to manually move files around. OneNote would be the best fit for replacing notes. You can place text, audio clips, and pictures in your notes using OneNote.

There's no direct equivalent for Tasks on the phone. But setting up reminders on the Calendar can take that functionality.

Joel Ivory Johnson | http://www.j2i.net | Device Application Development MVP | Software Engineer