iSync/Bluetooth vs. Palm/USB

[Andrew Currie]

Since this list has been a little quiet lately (at least in digest 
mode), I thought I might provide a little diversion in a tale of my 
move to iSync and it's related apps from Palm Desktop for the Mac...

I'd been using Palm Desktop faithfully -- save for a brief affair 
with Entourage that ended in a corrupted mail database -- and when 
the Handspring Treo came along my dream of one address book anywhere 
finally came true.

I had tried iSync with my Treo, but didn't really get the point... I 
needed Palm Desktop for it to run anyway, so why not stay the course? 
And so I did, until I began hearing the stories of how Palm's Desktop 
Application was incompatible with Apple's latest and greatest Panther 
OS. Around that time my cell phone provider had a deal on a Sony 
Ericsson T616, so I tried it out with iSync, iCal and another app 
called PhoneAgent for OS X.

I was, and continue to be, blown away. iSync works =so much better= 
with my SE phone, and any calendar alarms I enter on either my it or 
my Mac are faithfully copied to the other side. I've since moved on 
to an SE Z600, and to sync it up with my Mac was a breeze; in fact, I 
still switch back and forth between my two phones, and iSync doesn't 
seem to mind at all.

PhoneAgent lets me do things I never could with my Treo, like upload 
WAP bookmarks and back up each and every one of the insipid SMS 
messages friends and I trade back and forth. And Bluetooth is the 
icing on the cake -- no extra USB cables to pack!

Kudos to any developers reading this for making it all work. For the 
rest of you, thanks for letting me share :-)

AC
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