[beq]

I've also been using Exchange PIM push. Cloud syncing the multimedia items, documents, and files (in addition to PIM) on the mobile device does sound nice.

Fully integrating with the Live Mesh service would be good to sync files on ANY device (mobile, computer, etc) with each other and the cloud.

Actually I'd tried out a few competing cloud storage+sync services (some of which also provide mobile clients or mobile-optimized web access). As I recall, SugarSync in particular has a good iPhone client for files and photos access. But otherwise I preferred solutions with Windows Explorer context-menu integration like Dropbox and Syncplicity.

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...854#post472854

P.S. I would love it if Jungle Disk adds support for syncing and mobile access, so I can continue using my own S3 account (with price scaling to unlimited storage/bandwidth)...

[beq]

I've also been using Exchange PIM push. Cloud syncing the multimedia items, documents, and files (in addition to PIM) on the mobile device does sound nice.

Fully integrating with the Live Mesh service would be good to sync files on ANY device (mobile, computer, etc) with each other and the cloud.

Actually I'd tried out a few competing cloud storage+sync services (some of which also provide mobile clients or mobile-optimized web access). As I recall, SugarSync in particular has a good iPhone client for files and photos access. But otherwise I preferred solutions with Windows Explorer context-menu integration like Dropbox and Syncplicity.

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...854#post472854

P.S. I would love it if Jungle Disk adds support for syncing and mobile access, so I can continue using my own S3 account (with price scaling to unlimited storage/bandwidth)...

[Rob Alexander]

I spent the last month or so on Live Mesh and really liked the way the interface worked, but I finally had to give it up because I couldn't take the performance hit. It was especially bad on startup where it would grab pretty much the entire CPU to sync everything up even as I was trying to get the rest of the system going. Then, once I started tracking its CPU usage, I realized that it was using about half of my CPU cycles just sitting there when everything was in sync.

I was really sorry to give it up, though, because I love that it has a Windows Mobile client so I could include my HTC Touch in the mesh. Once they get the resource usage under control, I'll probably move back to it. In the meantime, I'm back with syncplicity, which works quite well and whose client is extremely well-behaved. It uses no measurable CPU cycles when it's not syncing and it gracefully gives way to foreground applications when it is syncing. My dream would be to have a Live Mesh/My Phone combination, with the low system impact of Syncplicity, that could keep everything synchronized between all my computers and my WM phone. That would be sweet!

[Jason Dunn]

I can't say anything specific, but my understand of My Phone has been...clarified today. Expect more on this later.

[j0dan]

Too bad Google beat them to it.
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

MS is dying.

[Dyvim]

Originally Posted by j0dan

Too bad Google beat them to it.

Too bad Google Contacts s**k so much- e.g. missing half of the fields from Outlook contacts, can't import data exported directly from Outlook without mangling most of the fields, etc. I really tried to like Google Contacts and Calendar and tried my best to move my Outlook PIM info into the cloud via Google (and not even using sync- just trying to import the darn things), but couldn't do it.

I expect MS's offering to be done better.