Missing Sync for iPhone: Windows Version
The wizards of sync at Mark/Space have announced the availability of The Missing Sync for iPhone (for Windows). This is the Windows edition of the package that takes PIM data from your existing Palm OS, BlackBerry, Symbian OS, or Windows Mobile device and moves it to your sparkly new iPhone.
Like its Mac counterpart, the Windows version of The Missing Sync for iPhone comes with three separate applications that let you pull your SMS text messages, Call Log, and Notes from the iPhone. The app is available from Mark/Space for $39.95 and runs on PCs with Windows XP or Vista. To use the Migration Assistant feature of The Missing Sync for iPhone, you'll also need to have Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 on your PC.
The Missing Sync for iPhone comes in English, French, and German localized versions.
In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote the User Guide for The Missing Sync for iPhone under contract to Mark/Space.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Flaming City said 5:06PM on 6-26-2008
Hopefully it works better than the MAC OS X to WM6 version which is more buggy than an ant farm.
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TomWBrowning said 5:21PM on 6-26-2008
No demo? No sale.
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Level 5 said 6:46PM on 6-26-2008
I can't get my head around the price of this thing. For something you're only likely to use once, $40 is a pretty low amount of value. SPB Software House offers SPB Backup for strictly WM to WM backups and transfers. I've bought it and it works swimmingly every time I've used it since 2005 when I got my first WM device. For a person like, it makes no sense to again pay for a backup suite. I'm likely to get my iPhone 3g (which I probably will around launch or shortly after), move PIM data, and more than likely I will NEVER USE the software again, and probably fling the Sprint Mogul I have onto e-bay. Apple tax from a company that's not even Apple? Ouch guys.
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Level 5 said 9:39PM on 6-26-2008
Just for the record, SPB Backup costs $15 less than Missing Sync... if they'd support the iPhone, I think they'd do alot of business. Especially in the WM -> iPhone dept.
Davy Fields said 9:42PM on 6-26-2008
Couldn't you just have someone else put up the article then? I think this is totally a newsworthy item but why not have someone else write the news item who isn't financially tied with the product?
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aj_robins said 12:25AM on 6-27-2008
I bought a copy, but I'm not sure if it's worth the price.
Note that, if you do not use the data migration feature to copy data from another phone (I didn't), the call log, sms log, and notes are ONE-WAY synchronization only: from the iPhone to your PC. There's no way to sync these from the PC to the iPhone. Of course, it doesn't necessarily make sense to have 2-way sync for the call and sms logs, but 2-way sync for notes would have been very nice. I'm guessing that these limitations exist because the app seems to get its data from the on-disk iPhone backup (and not from the iPhone directly),
Of course, the migration assistant can supposedly transfer data to the iPhone, but I didn't test that.
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Greg said 1:12AM on 6-27-2008
The "wizards" should figure out a way to sync a Moto Q9M without shutting off the leopard firewall and fix all the other bugs in the OSX versions before they port it to windoze.
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max said 11:37PM on 7-12-2008
what about the palm desktop for palm tungsten W? can i sync calendar, note, contacts, memo?
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