My Phone is a backup utility that backs up your text messages, contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and media file over the air and runs in the background on your Windows phone. The basic features of My Phone will continue to be free of charge, and Microsoft is also adding in four new premium services for a once-off charge of $4.99. Which is very attractive when compared to other similar services. ( Mobile Me has got a yearly subscription of about $99 )

New Features Include : Ring your phone, Current location, Lock , Erase

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mIQ from Best Buy Mobile helps users sync their contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, and internet favorites from their mobile phones to their private web-based mIQ account. Once in sync, the user can backup and interact with their information, share their experiences with friends and social sites, and restore their content when moving from one phone to the next. Content instantly transfers between the phone and the web without requiring any user interaction – ensuring users are always backed up and have access to the most up-to-date information.

BACK-UP & SYNCHRONIZE:

• Your mobile phone contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, voicemail and Internet favorites – backedup, synchronized, and always accessible on the web

ACCESS & INTERACT WITH:

• Elegant, web application enabling you to interact with and manage your contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, phone settings, and applications
• Automatic contact sync between your phone and the web – displayed online in a network address book where your communication history with a person is integrated into the contact details
• Ability to read, reply, and create new text messages from your computer – threaded by conversation for an instant messaging like experience
• Calendar sync between the phone and the web for new, edited,  or deleted calendar entries
• Photo and video applications where you can view, edit,  organize into albums, and share the media items that automatically upload from your phone
• Visual voicemail access from your computer
• Phone Internet favorites – configured from the web

SHARE:

• Photo and video sharing with friends via SMS or e-mail
• Automatic or single-click photo and video uploads to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and FriendFeed,
• Mobile status sharing directly to Facebook and Twitter
• Personalized public

RESTORE:

• Automatic transfer of contacts, calendar events, and Internet favorites from your old phone to your new one

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According to WMPowerUser.com Microsoft’s My Phone service is now in open beta. My Phone performs a daily backup of your phone’s address book, SMS messages, appointments, tasks, photos, videos, music and even documents with up to 200MB of content. The content can later be accessed online or be used to restore your data if you lost or hard reset your phone. Its expected to be pre installed in Windows Mobile 7 , when its released.

Virtual Mobile is an online service from Sprite Mobile , a leading Windows Mobile developer. If you have tried Dashwire or Microsoft MyPhone, its a similar app. Virtual Mobile is a free app in its beta stage. It should work on all WM5, WM6/6.1 phones.

With Virtual Mobile you can automatically back up the following data:

• Contacts
• SMS
• Photos
• Calendar
• Call History

It also provides some remote security features like

• Remotely lock the device from your PC.
• Remotely wipe the data from the device.

You also can interact with you device from your PC, so no need to use the stylus to type in your text. You can get more info about the application from the developers site.

When you use Gmail as your primary mail and use use Google calendar to organize events on a daily basis, there was no easy to to sync that info to your windows mobile device. But all that is about to change “big G” is one step closer to world domination by offering Google Sync for free on all major mobile platform and surprisingly enough Windows Mobile gets some love too. Its quite easy to setup. Just follow the instructions here : Google Sync Setup

NOTE : If you have an Exchange Sync with your Windows Mobile device, doing this might override that.
Make sure that you have backed up any Contacts and Calendars from your phone to your computer before proceeding.

Dashwire was the only cloud based service we had before the plethora of new ones that emerged, now we have Sprite’s virtualmobile and we have Microsoft’s now confirmed MyPhone service and the new one called Vufone.

Features Include :

• Backup your mobile phone
• Synchronize your phone with Google
• Synchronize your phone with Outlook
• Upload your mobile files to vufone
• Extend your phone to Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Youtube and more
• Never lose data when switching phones
• Send images from the Internet to your phone

Good news is vufone is free for a year if you signup during Feb 2009 , I couldn’t find what the price will be after the free trial period.

SignUp and Get it free for Year : vufone.com