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obile software providers and retailers must have gotten the word that people really needed backup and sync functions. Best Buy Mobile is offering free cloud sync and backup soon and Windows offers My Phone. An added bonus is that if you keep buying Windows, phones, My Phone automatically transfer your data to your new Windows Phone. My
Phone is a free service that helps people manage and back up information stored on their phone and provides an easy restore option in the event of a lost or damaged phone. The premium package locks lost phones and has location features.
My Phone automatically synchronizes the specific types of a phone's content the user chooses -- from contacts and appointments to texts, photos and more -- to a password-protected Web site.
Best Buy Mobile is backing-up its customers data and is in-sync with their needs. They are launching mIQ, a new web-based cloud service for smartphones which include BlackBerry, WinMo including the elusive HTC Touch Pro2, Nokia, and Samsung smartphone. Best Buy Mobile will offer the new service for free beginning October 12.
The mIQ service allows smartphone users to take the information captured on their mobile devices and access it from an easy-to-use Web interface on any computer. Once a user signs up for this free service - contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, and phone settings - are seamlessly uploaded from the mobile device and safely backed-up in a personal mIQ account in the "cloud."
The Google mobile blog let GMail users know that besides being synchronize their Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with their iPhone, Windows Mobile and S60 devices contacts. They can now push Gmail to those mobile devices.
It gives over-the-air, always-on connection for an inbox that is up to date, no matter where you are or what you're doing. Sync works with the mobile phone's native email application and noadditional software needed.
For those only interested in syncing in Gmail, but not Calendar sync, Google Sync allows users to just sync Contacts, Calendar, or Gmail, or any combination of the three.
Android users don't need to instale Google Sync because the application is already native on Android smartphones.
Cloud-sync and push email provider, Funambol, t released a mobile cloud sync index study evaluating solutions from 12 top device makers, portals, carriers and specialists in the mobile industry, including Apple MobileMe, AT&T Mobile Backup, BlackBerry IS, Funambol, Google Sync, Microsoft My Phone, Nokia Ovi Sync, Palm Synergy, T-Mobile Mobile Backup, Verizon Wireless Backup Assistant, Vodafone Zyb and Yahoo! Mobile.The study performed by a team of Funambol researchers, compares the syncing of mobile data and content, such as contacts, calendars, email, photos and files, against 10 different categories, including cost, usability and performance, global readiness, wireless desktop integration and social network sync.
Mobile cloud sync consists of syncing data and content on a mobile phone with a server and portal in the Internet cloud. Data and content can also be synced with email systems, desktop apps, social networks and more. While a variety of companies offer basic mobile cloud sync services, the ease of use, cost and variety of features differs widely from service to service.
The mobile cloud sync evaluation showed that solutions from mobile operators are often more limited than sync solutions from device manufacturers and portals. It also found that major areas of opportunity include wireless desktop integration, social network sync and solution openness.
Additional findings of the mobile cloud sync index include:
- 75% of solutions are free.
- 17% of solutions support one or two devices.
- 42% support a single family or small number of devices.
- 41% of solutions only sync a single type of data (e.g. contacts, email, photos).
- 75% of solutions do not support wireless desktop integration.
- 33% of solutions sync data with multiple social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn; 16% sync with one social network and 50% do not sync with social networks
- 58% of solutions support four or more languages.
Previously we named Funambol our BlackBerry Storm App of the Day and of the Month.
