My Phone Free Features
The service offers the following free features:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Data Types | My Phone synchronizes contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, text messages and browser favorites. It also syncs photos, music, video and documents stored in the My Documents folder or on a removable Storage Card. Users can select which data types they sync with the service. |
| Back-up/Restore | Data synchronized with My Phone can be restored or migrated to a 2nd device by installing the client and entering the same WLID credentials in setup. |
| Multiple Devices | My Phone supports up to 6 devices being paired to a single WLID account. Pairing multiple devices will result in the same information being synced to all connected devices. |
| Automatic Sync | Users can set My Phone to sync daily, weekly or manually. Daily sync will select a random time between 11PM and 5AM to automatically perform a wireless sync of detected changes or the user can designate a desired time. Weekly sync will automatically sync on a user designated day and time. Manual will only sync when the user opens the mobile client application and selects ‘Sync’. |
| Online Access | The My Phone portal allows users to view, add, edit, delete, sort, search, find duplicates and archive synchronized data. Contacts, calendar and tasks are added through the My Phone interface. Photos, videos and music can be uploaded from or downloaded to the PC. The archive feature allows a user to keep content on the Web portal but remove it from the phone to free up storage space. |
| Storage Limits | My Phone offers 200MB of free online storage. Individual files uploaded to the portal are limited to a maximum size of 15MB. |
| Photo Sharing | My Phone supports photo sharing and captioning from the portal and from the phone to Windows Live, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. |
| Map Last Known Locationbeta | My Phone can provide a map of the last known location of a phone based on last sync or last photo share. The feature requires user opt-in and is not available in all markets. |
| Intelligent Sync | My Phone only syncs changes to data to minimize the bandwidth impact. The service can connect via WiFi, PC (tethered) or cellular connections. It will use whatever the device is using, generally prioritizing broadband connections over cellular. |
| Sync Conflicts | My Phone will not sync data types that are being synchronized via an Exchange Active Sync partnership. However, if a user is syncing calendar and tasks with Exchange, but not contacts, then contacts can be synced with My Phone. If My Phone detects conflicts between changes made on the phone and on the portal, the phone changes will always take precedence. |
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