But with carriers changing mobile handset choices nearly as often as some people change their socks, you can readily imagine how difficult it is to do so. If you are a T-Mobile subscriber in Europe or the US, you should be able to use virtually any unlocked GSM mobile handset or smartphone on those networks, giving you choices that subscribers to other carrier plans do not have.Īdmittedly, Apple has not kept pace with carrier offerings. While neither Mark/Space nor Information Appliance Associates have released updates to support Windows Mobile 5 devices yet, both have promised to do so in the near term. With the addition of third-party software, most Blackberry devices, most Windows Mobile devices and the hiptop Danger OS units are supported. And, it does not support low-cost, low-end mobile handsets which are now so prevelant on carrier's lists.
It clearly does not support technology from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers, unless such devices happen to be based on the Palm, Symbian or Windows Mobile operating systems.
#ISYNC SOFTWARE SERIES#
ISync continues to support virtually all Palm handheld organizers and smartphones, virtually all Nokia series 60 and 80 mobile handsets, most Symbian OS devices like the SONY Ericsson P910a and earlier models along with others from Panasonic and Seimens, and most non-carrier specific Motorola handsets.
It is actually much more a problem of the choices made by wireless carriers in the mobile handsets they offer. This is actually a much larger problem than Apple and your perception that they have failed to keep pace. Windows generally (and relatively) *****, crashes and has so much security issues because it tries to be too "universal".
#ISYNC SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
and I tend to believe this is something important: focusing the hardware support leads to "better quality" and that's what Apple does and promotes for years: controlling hardware and software at the same time is the key to quality. This is why "Apple is not capable of that" because Apple engages its responsibility when it adds support for any phone.Īnd in facts, all the messages we can see on this board about all the problems encountered with just all the revisions of Motorola RAZR show what the problem is.įinally, this shows the basic problem in computers: if you choose Apple, you (generally) get the ease of use and the quality of the software but this imposes precise choices of the hardware. testing takes time (a lot of time because synchronizing is a complex thing). Worse, they don't really test if those phones really are identical and don't present any bug or major differences with already supported phones and thus can't guarantee that you won't lose any of your data or screw up your phone. Novamedia does nothing, really: it just adds identifications for phones that seem to be identical to other phones already supported by Apple.
#ISYNC SOFTWARE UPDATE#
Apple updates iSync almost at each software update with new phones there are other "sync" programs on Mac out there, maybe not for all the device we might want and generally far as easy to use as iSync
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