Born to be Wireless

Rumors are rising again as sources say Apple and Cingular signed an exclusive agreement on the highly anticipated iPhone. The iPhone is a crossover between the iPod and mobile phone. Apple and Motorola worked before on a MP3 targeted phone, the ROKR which was an adapted version of the E398 which could connect to iTunes. Also the ROKR was exclusive to Cingular at the release date. The iPhone is expected to save Apple from the shrinking MP3 player market as more and more people store their MP3’s on their device. If Apple is serious about this market, I wonder how often we see new iPhones turning up and to which design factors Apple will keep it similar to the original iPod design as some consumers might want business versions with full keyboard etc. Well, at least we know we can make games on it!

Source: Mobile Games Blog

One of the missing services that aren’t provided by operators and handset manufacturers is good back up of data sitting on the device itself. Anyone who has ever lost a phone or dropped one into some kind of pool of water that seem so irresistible to mobiles will know the pain involved.

But even if you aren’t hit by this type of catastrophe, it’s still hard for most people to transfer contacts and other stored data from one phone to another. So it seems a little silly to give customers a very good reason NOT to trade up their phones.

Zyb, have a nice solution for stored contacts that allows you to back them up quickly, securely and painlessly over the air - and free. Simple as that really.

It also has some nice tools for synching and sharing calendars and Outlook entries that are worth checking out. It’s free to use, with the plan being to introduce some premium services to generate revenue.

I’d like to see the facility to back up other data too - treasured SMS, for instance and photos. These may be some of the planned premium services they’re going to introduce.

Nice service. Check them out.