Microsoft’s new My phone sync service, is still in Beta and it is well at best, offering up a variable service, for many users. The inconsistency seems to be at the online end of the service, not the phone end. I signed up for the Beta as soon as it was announced, and finally today, after a tweet from MyPhone, I went and tried to sign in again, and I was in. When Doug did his quick look a couple of days ago, he didn’t really talk about the time it takes to do your initial set up, and sync, and for me patience is a virtue, that i don’t have for the most part, So if it was going to take an interminable amount of time I’m very likely to cancel the process and write it off as a work in progress and come back when it gets less fail worthy. What actually happened for me was very similair to what a lot of people are experiencing, my data is synced, and there, but the online portal is not translating it the way it should, so it becomes a WinLose situation, I’ve successfully cloud synced my phone, but the ways I can manipulate that data online is my digital Achilles’ heel. So here’s a graphical timeline of the initial set up and sync, for your “I want to know if it’s worth taking the time to worry about this” pleasure.

So you can see the initial set up and sync of My Phone, took about seventeen minutes, you might notice that when I chose to sync documents, it allowed me an option to sync the storage  card, well that’s not happening yet, even though the option is active on the mobile.

I’m having quite a few issues with the online version of MyPhone, but my Data is there, it’s looking good though, lets hope for some timely updates, not like the Windows Mobile roadmap, a bit more fluid would be nice