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iPhone/iPod Touch SyncML clients

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The iPhone is now over a month old, and good news, there are two SyncML clients available.  I’ve had the opportunity to play with both briefly.

Funambol is the free/opensource offering, it worked reasonably well in iPhone OS 2.0.0, but since upgrading to 2.0.1, it appears to perform a slowsync on every synchronization, resulting in potential duplicates, as well as the inability to delete items on either side.  For this reason, I’m not recommending it at this time.

Synthesis’ SyncML client is currently free, but will become a paid commercial product in the future, once Calendar support is added.

The initial version of the Synthesis client didn’t function at all with MDaemon’s SyncML server, Synthesis reported that the problem was fixed over a week ago, but it was just finally approved by Apple last night, and so far, it works great.

This is my current personal choice for SyncML client, I will post a more detailed review down the road once I have a bit more experience with it.

In both cases, the clients only support synchronizing the Contacts database, not the Calendar database (Apple didn’t bother with a Calendar API), nor Tasks (Apple didn’t bother to write a Tasks application)

Exporting Worldclient contacts the easy way

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How can I export contacts from my WorldClient address book?

There are two supported methods, and one unsupported method I’ll cover later.

  • ComAgent

ComAgent can synchronize a WorldClient address book with Outlook or Outlook Express.

To use ComAgent, have the user login to WorldClient, go to Preferences, then download and install ComAgent. Once installed, right click on ComAgent, go to Properties, then to Address Book Synchronization, choose the appropriate mail client and local folders and away you go.

Note that this is a two-way synchronization, items in your local address book will be sent up to the server. This is unavoidable.

  • SyncML

This method takes a bit more work, but is actually more flexible since you can access any Contacts folder. The process requires an SyncML external application, so you’ll need to find one based on the destination.