Microsoft My Phone for Windows Mobile 6.x it is It was a service complete of data synchronization stored on the phone.
Anyone had an account of MSN or Live could automatically synchronize the data on the phone (Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Text messages, Favorites, Photos, Video, Music & Documents) and store them online in your personal account.
Last days I received an email by which I was announced that this service will be closed starting with 7 august 2011. Specifically, on August 7, the data synchronization between operating system will stop Windows Mobile 6.x and Microsoft My Phone, and starting with October 6, 2011, the site Web My Phone will no longer be available.
Both current and archived data in Microsoft My Phone They will be automatically moved to the Windows Live Skydrive account, but Not all. Will be automatically moved Contacts (.csv), calendar (.ICS), text messages (TXT) and photos in the formats: JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF, FIT, WBMP, OPL, N3A, OTA.
Will not be automatically moved to Skydrive: Video files (3PG, 3GPP, MP4, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG), audio files (MP3, AIF, MID, AMR, AAC, AU, AWB, DM, M4A, MIDI, MP1, MP2, MPA, OGG, RAM, WAV, WMA) and … documents (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, txt, 1sp, rtf, html, htm, cab, pwi, wks, wps, wdb). It will have to be manually saved by each use.
More details about closing this service and how to do the migration / saving of data from My Phone, find at: Closing Microsoft® My Phone service.
An interesting thing for those who will not have time or will not know how to save their Microsfot My Phone data.
But if I cannot archive the content that is not automatically migrated to Skydrive?
Starting October 6, 2011, users can request a physical media support (CD or DVD-ROM) containing all the information saved in their My Phone account. This opportunity will be available to users for a whole year by October 5, 2012. Users must contact Microsoft assistance to send a request.
Personally I found a very useful service that helped me a lot. It happened a few times to be gone and I had to give a full reset on the phone. application Microsoft My Phone helped me bring my agenda back to the phone (contact, calendar, notes, tasks) and all files even if I was away from the computer. An application that I kept set to automatically synchronize around 00:00 and make in the online account the updates with the changes suffered in my device over the day. He did not consume a lot of resources and was not disturbing at all. I hope Microsoft will come up with a complete alternative to this service.
