Russell Beattie has a great rant on phone syncing. I’ve been working on my own long sync rant that I’ll hopefully finish some day… The basic premise was to be:
Everyone should support SyncML
Sync belongs in the OS (score Apple)
Sync must work over any available transport, esp. the Internet
Sync needs to be open to all applications […]
iSync has finally gone 1.0. Still doesn’t support any phones that aren’t from Ericsson. Still nothing for developers. CNET continues to hype Apple vs Microsoft. Without APIs there will be no battle, Microsoft wins by default.
CNET thinks there is a battle brewing:
synchronization software is shaping up as a key battleground for Apple and Microsoft. As consumers shift spending away from PCs to more portable devices, such as cell phones or digital music players, controlling the key element for synchronizing data on these devices with computers is becoming increasingly important, say […]
I purchased a Zaurus hoping that it’s built-in keyboard would address my biggest PDA complaint: lousy data entry. The keyboard is a big help, but four things hold me back from heavily using my Zaurus:
Kernel memory management isn’t optimized for PDA use.
Poor synchronization of user data to protect against system failure or loss.
No synchronization with […]
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