MobileMe - Any Good?

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cj10jeeper

Lifer
 Lichfield, England
New to the iPhone world and I have lots of emails and contacts across 2 laptops, multiple email accounts, ISP's etc. that I need to keep in sync.
iTunes seems incapable of what Blackberry could do in its sleep.

Considering a subscription to MobileMe. Anyone with any experience - good or bad or any similar or even free apps that they can recommend?

Thanks in advance
 
You can try it for free for 60 days, so just give it a go. Nice feature about making an appointment on your iPhone that appears on your PC / Mac without problem.
 
i used the free trial and the only feather i though would be worth me paying for was the lost iphone thing.. which allowed you to locate your phone and even remote wipe it.

However they have now made this feature free on iO.S 4.2!
 
Hey pvr - I shoudl have just emailed you!!
I know I can take the 60 day test, but it takes time no doubt to set it up and if everyone said it's useless then I'd have wasted the time of the learning curve.

I take it you like the product?
 
aquazi said:
i used the free trial and the only feather i though would be worth me paying for was the lost iphone thing.. which allowed you to locate your phone and even remote wipe it.

However they have now made this feature free on iO.S 4.2!
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That's one 'no' then.
 
I have had it for a year, but did not renew as I don't have an iPhone.

From those who do have the iPhone, I heard it was great.
 
I have it, handy because I'm using different machines and wanted to have them all synced. Not sure if there is anything else that does this too, but works for me.
 
I use Google mail/ Calender. Completely free and Google seems to sync with most network/systems.

anything i add to my work calender automatically syncs to iphone/ all contacts are kept securely on google contacts and my emails work instantly.

Would have went the mobile me way, but google seems to do a great job for free!

I have the mobile me account on my ipad/ iphone/ GF's iphone. but I only have it incase I lose one and need to track it.
 
Found this... didn't read through it properly as I have never had an iPhone, so don't know much about the app, etc, but thought it might help...
http://gigaom.com/apple/break-away-from-mobileme-seven-services-to-help-you-make-the-move/
 
I've been with MobileMe since it started and I was with .Mac before that. I don't have an iPhone, not getting one either BUT I do have two Macs, an iPad and an iPod Touch that I need to keep synced. It also provides me with my main email and hosts my website, plus my picture galleries.(direct posting from Aperture and iPhoto) Oh and I forgot about the backup facility as well, don't use that feature much but it's nice to have the remote backup there if needed. It did save my butt a couple of times...
This isn't a sales pitch, I'm just saying what my experience is with the Apple system. It works for me.... :thumbsup: and I don't have an iPhone....

Cheers
 
Thanks to everyone for the advice. On balance I think I'll give Apple one go to sort out sync to pc issues (that vodafone seem unable to do) then go with the MobileMe free trial and see how it works.

The alternatives look interesting but I can't see what tin that does it all like MobileMe

Thanks everyone
 
Not tried this myself.. but one of my friends was showing me this today... how he syc's his work account onto his personal iphone:

https://www.dropbox.com/
 
In terms of email can't you just use exchange or IMAP, that way the email is on the server and sill always be in sync whatever you use to connect to it? I can't really comment on the calendar issue as I keep my calendar entries on my iphone and don't use calendar on my other devices. It does sound like MobileMe would do what you want though, and my suspicion is at some point Apple might reduce the price or make a more interesting Freemium deal... I could also see them buying DropBox (hell, they could buy it with pocket change!) and integrating that into the deal.

I always dick around trying to find the best free way to do these things, but if I put a price on the time I have spent looking at various methods MobileMe doesn't seem that bad a deal actually.
 
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