What My Phone Doesn’t Have That Others Do

      by Wyatt Walter

There was an article from TG Daily that made it to near the top of Digg today trying to compare Microsoft’s new My Phone service to Apple’s MobileMe service. There’s also Google’s new Google Sync that allows users to synchronize their mobile phone with their Gmail contacts and calendars. I just can’t believe though, that Microsoft’s My Phone is even being compared to either of those services. The My Phone service is still in its infant stage, but it lacks one thing that MobileMe and Google Sync have: syncing to desktop applications.

MobileMe can only use an iPhone or iPod Touch to sync to as far as mobile devices, but it hooks into the built-in Apple apps for contacts, calendars, and mail as well as right into Outlook. The service also allows users to access their documents from off their computer from any other computer – not just backup the data on their phone. Google Sync allows users to sync with a variety of devices including iPhones, Blackberries, and Windows Mobile devices. It differs from MobileMe in that it doesn’t allow remote access to files or natively support syncing of contacts and calendars to desktop applications, but there are plenty of applications to work with Gmail contacts and calendars. From what it appears, My Phone will allow users with Windows Mobile 6 to backup their phones and download pictures from their phones from a web browser. Nothing too earth shattering yet, but a good start.

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