Phone.com's FoneSync Essentials Brings Effortless Personal Information
Synchronization to Wireless Phones FoneSync Essentials Solves a
Widespread Challenge - Transferring Names And Numbers to Mobile Phones
From a PC in Seconds, Not Hours
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 31, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Phone.com, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading provider of software and applications that enable the
delivery of Internet-based information services to mass-market wireless
telephones, today announced the immediate availability of FoneSync
Essentials(TM) -- a new Phone.com(TM) product designed specifically for mobile
phone users, allowing two way synchronization of names and phone numbers,
between mobile phones and personal computers.
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"Mobile phone users need their key names and numbers -- friends, family,
customers -- on their phones, and at their fingertips. FoneSync Essentials
closes the divide between the users' existing contact information databases and
their mobile phones by rapidly synchronizing the contact data already stored on
their PCs directly and quickly with the mobile phones. The data stored on PCs
provides a secure backup copy should a phone be lost, stolen or upgraded," said
Colin Calder group vice president of Synchronization Products at Phone.com. "The
average time it takes a person to enter a single phone number on a mobile phone
is 47 seconds. Multiply that by 100 contacts and a lot of time is consumed on a
simple task. By synchronizing with PC-based data, the user can transfer as many
numbers as the phone can hold in a few seconds, ensuring he has the right
numbers in his hand all the time."
FoneSync Essentials supports full two-way synchronization between the major
desktop personal information managers (PIMs) such as Microsoft Outlook(TM),
ACT!(TM), Lotus Notes(TM), Lotus Organizer(TM) and Goldmine(TM). A user can then
select a relevant subset of their contact data to synchronize to the phone's
memory, making it easy to manage different contact lists for different purposes.
National and international travelers benefit from the automated number
formatting, which changes the long distance or international dialing prefixes
according to whatever geography they choose.
This new version of FoneSync now supports "drag and drop" directly from Internet
White and Yellow pages that support vCard format, allowing any useful number to
be instantly added to both PIM and phone. The new and increasingly popular vCard
format can now be dropped directly into the FoneSync database so that updating
records becomes quick and efficient, with synchronization replacing re-keying
data into several locations.
FoneSync Essentials directly supports over 150 models of mobile phones, and via
the SmartLynx(TM) SIM Card reader, can support any GSM phone.
FoneSync Essentials will be available in English in most leading software and
mobile phone retailers beginning June 1. Starting June 14, FoneSync Essentials
will be available in French, German, Italian, Dutch and European Portuguese.
Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish languages
will be added on July 5. Using the integrated update wizard in Version 3.1,
existing users of FoneSync can upgrade to FoneSync Essentials which is available
over the Internet. |
