Promises Microsoft

Mar 3, 2009 15:28 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer introduced the My Phone service at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. The new offering, debuted into Beta stage just a couple of weeks ago, is designed to ensure that users of mobile phones will be able to synchronize data between their devices and the Cloud. At this point in time, Microsoft teams in Braga, Portugal and Seattle are hard at work laboring to produce a stable service as the Beta is opened to more and more testers. At the same time, the software giant indicated that it would pay attention to the most popular demands as regards My Phone Beta, which are related to integration with Windows Live and advanced synchronization capabilities.

“The Windows Live suite of services provides a fantastic user experience around Contacts, Calendar, Photos and other user needs. We too are big fans and ardent users of these services and it is natural for you all to ask for tighter integration so that all of your personal data is consolidated in one single view. The initial goal for My Phone service was to test the concept and validate that we are solving a real problem for the users. Now that we have a resounding vote of confidence for the service our future plans are moving in this direction,” revealed a member of the My Phone team.

Microsoft also indicated that tester feedback was in no way limited to the service itself. In this regard, users that have already been granted access to the Beta are also interested in seeing the actual My Phone website updated with new functionality and features. The Redmond company revealed that all suggestions would be taken into account, and that future updates to the My Phone website would be tweaked to include feedback from testers.

“Your phone is a very personal device for lot of us. For some of us it is akin to having all of life in your hands and it is not fun thinking about losing all of this information. We have tried to support syncing the most frequently used data types keeping in mind the current and future trends but at the same time we have room for growth in this area for syncing additional information. There has also been active discussion around providing flexibility to select folders and files from the phone for syncing it with the service and also providing the option to sync Contacts, Calendar and Tasks even though they are managed by Exchange/ActiveSync,” the My Phone team representative added.