Microsoft's SkyBox site live, branded My Phone?

[dannzeman]

by Chris Ziegler, posted Feb 6th 2009 at 7:03AM

It appears that Microsoft may have its SkyBox beta sign-up site up and running in preparation for a Mobile World Congress unveiling -- except that it's not called SkyBox, it's called "My Phone" (even though the domain is getskybox.com -- go figure). The phone-to-cloud syncing service promises to make transferring contacts, appointments, tasks, photos, videos, music, text messages, and documents between Windows Mobile 6 (and above) phones a breeze, and even better, the service is free "at this time." If the details are accurate here, we can expect 200MB of online storage courtesy of your friends at Microsoft, but don't bother trying to sign up -- it craps out as soon as you try. Soon, friends, soon.

[Thanks, Matt B.]

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/0...nded-my-phone/

[neodorian]

Site is slow for me. Gonna have to check it out but I'm not sure what it will offer over something like Dashwire.

edIt: and why did they rename it to something rhyming with "iPhone"?! Skybox was cool!

[CozBoogie]

The site is wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy slow...I keep getting timed out.

late,
Coz

[elosogrande7076]

looks like i was too slow....does anyone know if this will sync with Outlook on the pc also?

[lawmangrant]

Originally Posted by elosogrande7076

looks like i was too slow....does anyone know if this will sync with Outlook on the pc also?

I doubt it will sync with outlook, as that would basically be a free exchange server that is MS hosted.

Doubt they would give that away.

[Zewnchops]

Looks like the Sign Up is back!

http://www.jcxp.net/news.php?newsid=2623

[lawmangrant]

Originally Posted by Zewnchops

Looks like the Sign Up is back!

http://www.jcxp.net/news.php?newsid=2623

I just tried, I got a "Waiting List option" or "Enter Promotional Code"

Still waiting!

[lattisimo]

i just got my email with the link to sign in and download.

To install with your phone's web browser, go to https://myphone.microsoft.com/install.

installed and signing in to test as i type this. says it will sync almost everything on my phone. contacts, calendar, tasks, pictures, texts... and more.

i use a mail2web email account and i am not sure as of yet but looks like i can not use them both in conjuction. if this is the case then i am not as happy as i was 5min ago.

[lattisimo]

ok... either "exchange" syncs contacts, calendar, and tasks or "My Phone" does. you can pick one or the other. "My Phone" still syncs the rest (documents, pics, etc. will even sync items from your storage card. the storage card option does not let you select individual types of data though, which is a serious drawback. i want to sync my photos from my storage card but not my music. at this time there is no way to select one and not the other.

[Peteman100]

Has anyone been using the My Phone service? Does the software significantly slow your phone down? Any opinions?