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machz990 · 08-10-2008, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Those of you who use MobileMe - are you happy with it? I tried to sync my new iPhone through the iTunes and selected my 'google' account instead of outlook as I've never used outlook - well, now I got some 700 names on my iPhones I never planned on having there to begin with.

Oh well, no problem I’ll just do some serious deleting here…

I'm trying to figure out how to sync phone numbers so the iPhone overrides whatever the PC has (Treo would let you choose). So far I love the phone but syncing it through the iTunes and even transferring files, music, etc to the phone seems to be little confusing to me. Of course, I’m an Apple virgin…

I signed up for MobileMe when I got my new iPhone. The first week or two after the new 3G iPhone came out, MobileMe was very sluggish and I wasn't impressed. Now Apple has fixed a few issues and it seems to run very nice. I had way too many contacts show up initially on my phone also when syncing contacts with Outlook on my PC. And to make matters worse some how I ended up with duplicates of each contact and all my calandar events such as birthdays, etc. I did some serious deleting to. I decided to sync MobileMe with all my contacts on my PC and then I edited the contacts on MobileMe to the ones I actually wanted on my iPhone. I have a lot of contacts in Outlook that I rarely, if ever, will call. So after I edited my contacts in MobileMe they synced to my iPhone and now all is good. I do like the "Push" feature in MobileMe. If you get an email sent to your xxxxxx@me.com address it will ding and show up on your iPhone. Plus if you add a contact to either MobileMe or on your iPhone it shows up on both ends. You don't have to enter it everywhere. I have my PC's set up only for Manual Sync with MobileMe so they don't add or change my contacts on the iPhone. You can sync manually in one of 3 ways. You can sync from PC to MobileMe or vice versa and you can also merge data. Depends on what you are trying to do. MobileMe is fast now and the initial bugs appear to be fixed. I just haven't made the transition yet to changing my email address to MobileMe. I think I will tell a few select people my MobileMe email address so my iPhone doesn't get inundated with BS emails, only important ones from people I want to stay in contact with. One other feature I like is adding people's photos to the contact info in MobileMe. Then when they call me their picture shows up on the screen when calling for caller ID. You also get the text info but the picture is nice to. If you take a picture of one of your contacts on your iPhone and set it on the phone to their contact info the picture automatically shows up in MobileMe under their contact info via the "Push" feature. Also with MobileMe you can do all your typing/editing in MobileMe on a real computer and not be a typing fool on the little iPhone keypad.