My Phone now in open beta – no invite needed
My Phone, the Windows Mobile cloud backup service has now entered open beta. This means anyone can now try out the service without getting one of the rare invites that were needed previously.
My Phone performs a daily backup of your phone’s address book, SMS messages, appointments, tasks, photos, videos, music and even documents with up to 200MB of content. The content can later be accessed online or be used to restore your data if you lost or hard reset your phone. Eventually the service will also allow changing phone settings such as wall paper and ring tones from the web page, rather than having to dig into the device yourself.
Microsoft however says that this was just the start. “Over time you’ll see us increasingly integrate My Phone with other Windows Live services such as Windows Live photos, contacts, calendar and other types of services” says Todd Brix, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Mobile Services. “We’ll end up integrating more and more of these.”
Brix also told APC that My Phone would be woven into Windows 7, most likely as one of the options on the Device Stage when a Windows Mobile phone is connected to the PC. “It’s part of our strategy to integrate Windows Live services with Windows 7, and My Phone is one of those services”.
Read the full APC article here and access the My Phone service here.
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so are you saying that phone with winmo6.5 have access to the myphone at this minute?
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May 19th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
My Phone works with all WM 6 + devices.
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Is there a way to install MyPhone to a storage card? I don’t have enough room to install it on my system storage.
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My Phone works as advertised. Installed quickly. Backup of photos, documents, contacts, calendar, etc. went smoothly. Easy access to backup copies via Microsoft Live web interface. However, I consider the service crippled and marginally useful for the following two reasons:
- Data from storage card is not backed up. I put lots of user documents and photos on the storage card to save device memory. My Phone is useless for these files.
- Web interface is crude and unique. Does not sync with Outlook on PC. Yet another new interface for dealing with PIM data.
If you want a targeted PIM backup solution, then My Phone is ok. If My Phone would allow user specified folders (on storage card) and sync with desktop Outlook, then it would be a winner.
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