Microsoft’s MyPhone Service Available to Public

Microsoft’s My Phone service was officially showed at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona on Feb. 17. Finally its now available for consumers; codenamed SkyBox - now My Phone service is made open to public.

Microsoft designed My Phone service specifically for Windows Mobile-based devices. At the moment, Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 based phones would be able to use My Phone service and all new releases of Windows Mobile Operating will also be supported.

My Phone service is similar to Apple’s MobileMe service that allows backup and mobile synchronization of contacts, photos, videos, and other stuff to secured web accounts on cloud servers. My Phone account offers 200MB storage space for saving Windows Mobile phone content such as Contacts, SMS, Calendar, photos and videos. With Windows Live is installed on phone, My Phone will sync all the Windows Live contacts to Windows Live website. In case the user loses phone or decided to switch to a new Windows Mobile device, the backed up content can be restored by simple sync.

Microsoft offers My Phone in beta stage there are chances of data loss. Let’s hope that My Phone doesn’t go through hiccups like how Apple’s MobileMe had to. It should be noted that Google also offers a similar service for syncing contacts called Google Contact Sync. Soon, we may have Google jumping into service of offer mobile data backup to cloud servers too.