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#103
Originally Posted by InfinityDevil View Post
The big missing piece on the NITs is: sync.

Provide a rock-solid sync engine for all types of data -- files, contacts, calendar, tasks, anything via a plug-in architecture -- and server systems for hosting/managing/replicating that data so I can sync my info and back it up to another system easily and I will use my NIT a whole lot more.

Maybe if Nokia paid for a full-time developer on SyncML or something, and also paid for plugins to web PIM systems like google calendars/mail/tasks/contacts, yahoo for the same, MSN for the same, and so on? It has to be easy and it has to work.

Listen to the 1src podcast last week, the guy loves and misses the failed Foleo project which was to sync his contacts, email, tasks, everything from phone to Foleo netbook to desktop and back again seamlessly. This kind of sync engine would replicate and back data up on our own systems as well as across work and home systems, servers, etc.
The concept of "Sync" is soon going to be a thing of the past (IMO). Why, because handheld computers are getting more powerful, and simply syncing them is not going to be enough. A better option is to "sync" them to online servers, so its always in "sync." This is the future, where all your devices share data at all times. Its the revolution of the internet tablets, no sync.
 

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