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SyncML is a reality?

January 12th, 2006

One of the most interesting things from the Yahoo!Go connect announcement from Yahoo, was the ability to use SyncML to synchronise your account with your address book, calendar, etc…
Waoow I was thinking, at least it happens….. Let’s try it…

And big disappointment:

What is really strange and weird is that the server seems to filter only to a subset of ten supported phones! Do not really understand why, as SyncML should be standard…. The users who are able to configure SyncML (which is in fact the real challenge) then are blocked because they do not have the right phone. What is the point here? Is there a technical challenge that we do not know?
But let’s assume it’s just a temporary situation, I really believe that SyncML then will be huge. Of course, there is a lot of remaining issues, like settings as usual. So Operator position on this topic will be quite interesting.

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