I bet all of us are afraid that our precious data on our phone will be lost if we lose the phone or bad things will happen to it.
All cellphones usually come with their own PC bound software suites that syncs data or backup data to your computer.
These apps are usually a pain to install and a major hassle to configure. Not only that - the user must pair his device either via bluetooth (which is a pain on its on) or a cable. It seems that most users do not use or install the software that syncs their phone. Most users don’t even backup their content using those software as a direct result.
In the past several month several major players released data/content synchronization for mobile phones.
Google just released their Google Sync, Microsoft is about to release MyPhone, Nokia has thier own OVI platform that is preinstalled on some phones. It seems that all the big players notice that this is a hot issue that needs to be addressed. Even the open source community noticed this and launched the funambol project. Apple has its own MobileMe service for the iphone for $99 a year….
Syncing a phone effortlessly and over the air either over 3G or WIFI, requires infrastructure and protocols.Most phones rely on the SyncML protocol to sync the Contacts to a server. However SyncML is quite limited.
Not all phones can sync the Calendars over SyncML and basically SyncML is limited to contacts and the calendar.
What about all the OTHER data we got on our phones? – Video?, Pictures?, SMS?, Notes?, RingTones? our Music?
Its seems that even the big players fail here miserably.
- Googe Sync supports quite a wide range of phones, but mostly via SyncML (contacts/calendars – also not on all phones). On the Iphone / BlackBerry it is possible to use the licensed ActiveSync technology google paid for from microsoft to sync up the phone using the built in Exchange client, yet this allows only contacts and calendar sync.
- Apple’s MobileMe – only for Iphone………
- Microsoft’s MyPhone – is Windows Mobile Only solution. What about the rest of us?
- products based on funambol are SyncML only – again – no true content synchronization.
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….And then come’s vufone.com
vufone.com is a service that uses propriety agent and protocol to FULLY synchronize your phone with vufone.com site.
The user downloads an agent, and once this agent installed in the phone – true content synchronization is in effect.
as vufone is not bound to SyncML and uses its own protocol and agent – we now have full access to the phone’s content - from SMS messages, to video files and audio.
Vufone adds another major function that the big players forgot - Content manipulation.
Once the phone is synchronized to vufone.com – the user can manipulate their data on intuative web site. play videos, play audio, edit contacts and share data between vufone users and to well known sites such as picasa, facebook, google and flickr.
Lost your phone? install an agent on your new phone and the content of your previous phone will sync to your new phone 
. its that neat!
vufone supports wide range of phones from simple nokia’s to most sophisticated windows mobile OS.
Iphone and Google’s G1 android support is coming !
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