Windows Phone Thoughts: How Often Do You Sync Your Pocket PC?

With the release of Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2, which allowed me to synchronize my tasks over the air, I find myself syncing with my desktop less often. I am a huge Task user and have been waiting for this for years. I'd rather forgo appointment and contact sync as those are relatively static while my tasks are updated/completed/added dozens of times a day. I noticed yesterday it had been 2 days since I had docked my K-Jam and I wasn't really itching to do so, I just took the opportunity to charge rather than using the wall wart next to my bed that I usually use. My files do change, but syncing is largely to back up the files. The only files I really share between the PC and PPC are ListPro and HanDBase files. Other files just don't change often enough or are rarely if ever opened on my PC. I gave up Notes long ago because, to use a technical term, it sucks. Favorites never change much either. If it weren't for ListPro, I could probably go days or even weeks without syncing to my desktop, letting everything important sync automatically with my Exchange server.



For those of you working on your own or not tied to a corporate solution, if you don't have Exchange 2003 SP2 available to you and would like to see what it can really do, give 4Smartphone a try. It is an Exchange hosting company and for $3.99 a month, you can store 500MB of data on the server, syncing recent emails with your PDA and use Outlook Web Access, or for $6.99 a month, use Outlook 2003 and desktop synchronization. If I didn't have Exchange, I'd do this in a heartbeat. (And yeah, I know, if WiFi sync still worked in ActiveSync 4.x, many of you would sync more often, but let's move past that. Let it go. 2006 is a new year and it won't work then either. Ohmmmmmmmmm... feel the bad energy float out of your body... ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm)