Monday, June 1, 2009

MyPhone, Microsoft's newest service to backup your cell phone.

Microsoft currently has an online Smartphone backup service in it's beta stages, called myphone. The URL to it is myphone.microsoft.com. This service is great because you can backup everything or almost everything your smartphone, and have it available online via a web browser as well. Best of all right now, IT'S FREE

It's current limitations:
  • Only available for windows mobile 6 and later
  • Only backs up 200MB
  • backs up your contact, calendar, tasks, test messages, music, photos, videos, and documents.
  • Can backup data from your removable card (SD or microSD)
  • If you receive corporate email via an exchange server, myphone will not sync the options that you have selected to sync with your company's exchange server, like your contacts, calendar and email.
If you never used it, click on the Try it out button. It will ask you to enter your cell #. Once you do that It will send a text message with a link to download an install file for your phone. You click on the link and it will ask you for the type of phone that you have, and then you can download and run the .cab file on your phone.

Once installed, you should see it under your programs directory. Run the program, answer accept to the agreement, log in with your LIVE ID, choose your sync schedule, whether automatic or manual, choose what you want to sync and that's it. It's really simple, and you can walk around with peace of mind that if you were to loose your cell phone or someone steal's it, you can get back all the information on it without a problem.

Try it out, let me know what you think.