For example, the Blackberry mobile email service is considered by many to be one of the most reliable for delivering email service with Active Sync to Exchange enterprise servers. For small businesses without enterprise mail servers, they can install Blackberry Unite, which has over-the-air contacts, calendar, and documents. The fine print in the slides makes a disclaimer that “it is a bit of an apple and orange comparison.” So, why include an invalid chart?

Verizon should not be grouped in the Proprietary SyncML category since its Backup Assistant service is powered by FusionOne, and uses open SyncML APIs.

Those are just two examples, but I think you get the point. You can drive a truck through many of the article’s arguments.

Many times the Funambol automatic backup didn’t always work, and our clients hate that. What’s the point of a backup if it doesn’t work half the time? It’s kind of hollow to award yourself a high usability ranking, especially if your product is unreliable.

Being theoretically available for a phone and having a tested, working phone client are two different things. It would be a huge surprise if Funambol has downloadable clients for even HALF of their 700+ phones.

Nexthaus has BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Palm, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Android clients. Plus a web portal, plus much more private label experience than Funambol.

Also, it’s a bit of a misnomer to say that all funambol clients are SyncML, since they are not. More often than not, if you try a funambol client with a non-funambol, but fully compliant, SyncML server, issues ensue. So much for interoperability

Anyhow, guess I should email Hal to try and have us included.

Lou
Nexthaus.com

I really would want an equivalent of that app on the iPhone.

Most (if not all) corporate Blackberries keep everything on your phone in sync at any time. And unlike other platforms, it does so without killing your battery life. It is such an integral part of the (corporate) Blackberry that it seems strange to talk about it as a “feature”.

If I want to find some information from my past it is either in my gmail messages or contacts, google docs, google calendar, local documents, live mesh, facebook account or an sms message. Most of my information is already stored with google. Whatever I can do to unify searching across all that the better and to have access from my phone even better.

Great thanks for the tips guys, phones I will look in to them. The main phones I am considering are either the new iPhone 3G S, HTC Magic (G2) or Palm Pre any recommendations?

SYNKIA first in the world to offer SyncML based SMS backup

NESØYA, NORWAY–(Marketwire – June 23, 2008) – SYNKIA, the Norwegian online personal data management service, that has been offered globally to clients since July 2006, is the first and only synchronization service, that offers fully sms backup as a part of SyncML protocol. SYNKIA users are able to back up all their sent and received sms messages, store them on SYNKIA server and access them via the SYNKIA web application.

Sms backup is realized as one time action of synchronization between a mobile phone and the SYNKIA server, together with all personal data. In the sms section of SYNKIA web application users have a backup of messages still present on their phones and an unlimited archive of all messages ever backed up with SYNKIA, no matter if they are still on the phone or not. Rich search functions allow to find a specific message by key words, date sent or received and sender name.

“I’m a heavy sms user myself and with SYNKIA sms backup I know, that the 5000 sms’es that I store are safe and easy to access. Unlike other synchronization service providers, we offer sms backup without asking clients to send all of the messages, each one separately as a single sms, to the server. I’m glad that our clients may use such simple sms backup service as this saves their time and money” – says Morten Sundstø, the President and co-founder of SYNKIA.

The SYNKIA personal data management service is available at http://www.synkia.com and can be used with any SyncML enabled handset. With SYNKIA one can store and manage their contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, notes and sms’es. SYNKIA offers 100% safety for users data both during transmission and on its servers. SYNKIA is the first SyncML based service to offer sms backup functionality.

Rseven.com (Four+ data type, free, S60 & WM, AJAX website)
Dashwire.com (Four+ data type, free, S60 & WM, AJAX website)
Vufone.com (Four+ data type, paid, S60, WM & J2ME, AJAX website)

All the above “sync specialist” backup more data than Funambol (such as SMS, images).

I’m not sure about criteria 10: Branded and Customized Sync to 3rd Parties. This would only matter to operators only, the end user wouldn’t evaluate using this criteria.