[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] SYCHRONISING WM5 TO A MAC - SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

[Sten Feldman]

This is in response to Simon Hicks posting on the issue of 4smartphone.com
service.

I have been reading this forum for some time now, hoping for the beta release of
MissingSync that would work with WM5. During that time there has been also
discussions on alternatives. I have tried serveral things and can also say that
4smartphone.net seems to be the only way to get WM5 somehow synced with Mac.
Still there should be some reservations taken concirng that service.

4smartphone.com is an Exchange service, I am not sure do you need PRO account to
be able to sync Entourage with the service as entourage uses the web access to
sync with Exchange and doesn't support all the features that Outlook 2003 has in
MS Windows.

Still you get a 15-day free trial to test if this solution works with you.

Syncing the mobile phone with the service is easy enough and step-by-step
instructions are given. Also entourage syncing works nicely

Once that is done and you have installed the laters Entourage updates, you can
enable the sync services support in Entourage making the phonebook data and
calendar data available also to Address Book and iCal

If you don't use any grouping functionality then this is probably enough for you
and works great. Whatever you change in iCal appears to Entourage ang gets
synced with 4smartphone.com service. And from there you can sync it to your
mobile phone.

What is dissapointing with this service, is that you don't get your TASKS
synced. This simply because Entourage does not support Exchange tasks.

Anyhow as many has reported 4smartphone.com is an alternative solution and as
Entourage now support Sync Services then you can still use your favorite
iCal/Addressbook and time to time open Entourage so that the changes made will
get synced to Exchange server and from there to you PDA/Smartphone.

The solution is good but not great as you will not have tasks and you will lose
the ability to use grouping as iCal will only sync "Entourage" named calendar
with Entourage.

Anyways, I suggest people who are eagerly waiting for MissingSync to try out the
15-day trial to see if the service suits their needs.

Cheers,

Sten