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Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4.0 adds WM6 support
It's sad but true; not everybody can have an iPhone. But for those poor souls with a supported Windows Mobile device, things just got a little bit better as Mark/Space has released version 4.0 of their Missing Sync for Windows Mobile with support for the new Windows Mobile 6 platform. New to version 4, Mark/Space has added plugins for video support (both ways), call logs, and SMS messages. And as always Missing Sync continues syncing support for iCal, Address Book, iTunes, iPhoto, etc.
Missing Sync for Windows Mobile is $39.95 and upgrade pricing is $24.95 from a variety of Missing Sync products.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ECJ said 7:18PM on 7-31-2007
I just think their whole upgrade pricing and policy is wrong. When I had a Motorola Q, I bought v2.5 at $39.95. Then a few months later v3.0 came out, and I spent $24.95 for the upgrade. Then a few months later v4.0 comes out with a request for another $24.95. It should be more than a few bug fixes and a few new features, I think. Or at least give a free upgrade, to customers that bought in the lsat three months. So my investment into Missing Sync is $74.90, and people call me crazy for switching to an iPhone. Not to mention the $44.95 a spent just on the Verizon PDA plan.
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Michael Hodges said 7:30PM on 7-31-2007
heh... day late and a dollar short...
one word: iPhone
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Reg Muffet said 8:40PM on 7-31-2007
Not to denigrate the solution, which I'm sure is as good as it could be, given the serious pitfalls of the Windows Mobile environment, but I have poured so much money into trying to get a workable sync from a WM5 phone, version after version, and it never did work properly.
The closest I got was a golden two week period where I'd just plug my WM5 based phone in, Missing Sync would see it, and copy everything correctly. For that brief time, I thought I'd reached WM5 sync nirvana.
Except then I looked too closely, and found half of the Contacts info was missing: work phone numbers but not home numbers, or vice versa, truncated addresses, missing notes fields, calendars that had dates skewed by a few hours.
In frustration, I ended up just using the WM5 phone as a phone and email checker, and often carried a 5G iPod for full contacts, calendars and notes. iPod syncing has always been effortless, complete, and fully satisfactory.
Then of course the iPhone arrived and it was game over. Almost no blogs have commented on iPhone syncing, I think because, like high quality movie music that is best when filmgoers aren't aware of it because it fits the scene so perfectly... it just works.
The stupid thing is, I'll probably buy Missing Sync 4.0, just to see if the "holy grail" is ever attainable. Of course, we know how that worked out for Indiana Jones.
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Rico said 12:14AM on 8-01-2007
For me, Missing Sync works most of the time, albeit with numerous quirks. But, when it works, I have little to complain about. I'm with the rest of you: MarkSpace's pricing for upgrading sucks. Unfortunately, my contract with AT&T was renewed before the iPhone came out (got myself a Blackjack), so I've got quite some time before I can switch over to one. Hopefully by then the bugs and kinks will be worked out with it (and maybe an official SDK :-D).
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Mike said 5:45AM on 8-01-2007
While I think the iPhone is great, the "But for those poor souls with a supported Windows Mobile device" part, makes me think of the amount of stuff I have installed on my HTC Touch, which I could never get on the iPhone:
- TomTom Navigator, a full-featured GPS nav software.
- Network sniffer.
- WiFi scanners.
- File explorer with FTP and registry editor.
- Photo viewer with editing capabilities and upload to Flickr.
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acrobat Reader (which come built-in).
- Skype, with voice calling and chat.
- Multi-network IM client (MSN, AIM, Jabber, etc.).
The iPhone, again, is very nice, easy to use, syncs with the Mac perfectly...but it does not do any of the extras that really make a difference if you want to carry a PDA, not just a phone with a nice screen and some cool UI effects. I'm pretty sure that hackers will soon have extra tools & apps running on the iPhone, but IMHO Apple made a HUGE mistake in not providing an SDK from the launch date.
When Microsoft released Windows CE a few years ago, it had a very clear vision that the only way for the platform to succeed was to create an environment in which developers could add extra value to it - just like it had done with Windows. Had Windows 95 simply become an OS with Paint and Wordpad, it would have gotten nowhere.
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Joe Angrisano said 8:30AM on 8-01-2007
I've suffered through about four rounds of upgrades with this software yet my "supported device" just never worked. Sure it would connect, it would even try to sync but all it ever did reliably was erase all my contacts and blank out my calendar.
So until I join the iPhone crowd I've discovered a unique solution. I joined Plaxo (the free online calendar and contacts site) and I installed ActiveSync under VMware Fusion. So now I sync under fusion and Plaxo takes care of the rest by keeping my Mac in sync with my PC.
It's not perfect, you get only one calendar, but it's better than Missing Sync ever was and it's free.
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ivar said 7:05PM on 10-11-2007
Thanks galls and guys ,
Ya'll saved me 39 bucks by demotivating me to buy Missing sync.
iPhone not an option in Holland yet, so I guess I need my PC next to the Mac.
Cheers!
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