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Finally some competition for Missing Sync

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Eltima Sync Mate is a free sync tool for your WM phone to sync with your Mac. If you are using a Windows Mobile phone and a Mac computer up till now your only choice has been Missing Sync which is a hefty $40.

Sync Mate did a good job on the calendar and contacts and all. It wouldn’t install a file for me from my computer to my phone. All else appears to have worked.  However it broke something with MissingSync.  I have exported, deleted and reimported my calendar and deleted tasks and did a hard reset on the phone and MissingSync will no longer work.  I’ve even hunted down and wiped all the various caches and wiped and re-installed MissingSync.  So now I’m syncing on my laptop.

Missing Sync does an excellent job though this most recent version has been a bit flaky under OSX 10.5. I’m betting there’ll be a patch soon.

Bottom line is spend the money for MissingSync if the syncing is important to you, use the beta SyncMate otherwise.  Just don’t play with both.

Written by timestocome

January 14th, 2008 at 5:00 am

Posted in Useful Windows Mobile software