One of the biggest announcements to come out of the recent MWC 2009 conference was Microsoft’s MyPhone online backup service.  This is a huge step for Microsoft, and it is a fantastic looking service.  Essentially, it takes all of the important data from your Windows Mobile phone, copies it to your online MyPhone account, and puts it in a format which allows you to access the data just as easily from the site as from your phone.  In other words, like the popular service, Dashwire, it is not just a backup service, but complete access to your data from any computer in the world.

When MyPhone was announced at MWC, Microsoft indicated that it would be an initially closed beta.  Still, I went ahead and registered my Live ID (the whole thing is tied to your Live ID account or Hotmail) and hoped for the best.  Needless to say, I was quite surprised last night when I received an invitation to register for MyPhone…which I did immediately before they could change their collective minds.  I have now spent most of the day (or at least what free time I have had) playing with this program.  Here are some of my initial thoughts.

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OK, so I am not sitting by the mailbox waiting for my Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring, but I might as well be while I sit here waiting for the Amazon Kindle 2.  I got an email from Amazon on Sunday evening indicating that my Kindle had shipped.  I tracked my package on Amazon and found that on Sunday, and found it had left the seller’s facility in Campbellsville, KY, and was in transit.  Like I said, that was Sunday.  Here it is Tuesday, and the status has not changed.  Oh and the Postal Service has no record of my tracking number.  Guess I will have to trust that the March 2 delivery date is more or less accurate.  But now that I know Engadget received theirs today, I want it and I want it now…

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The good folks over at TalonPr have given us some great software to pass on to you, dear JAMM readers! Let’s take a look at what we have to giveaway:

From Splashdata, we have SplashID – the place to securely store all of your passwords, pin numbers and account numbers. This is available for both iPhone and Windows Mobile.
We also have FileMagic available – this is a file transfer utility that allows you to transfer any type of file to your iPod Touch or iPhone. This is only available for iPod Touch/iPhone.

HanDBase is a great database manager application from DDH Software that offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, handheld computing devices and smartphones. This is available for both WinMo and iPhone

And then, for Windows Mobile only, we have a couple of great apps:

From Ringo we have Ringomo – create your own ringtones out of your own music!

And Phoneface lets you flick through your favourite contacts with your trackball or touch screen, then when you want to make a call, send an SMS or compose an email, you just press the ball or screen.

Hit the jump for details……………..

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Ever wanted to get your hands on cool new software, and contribute to how it is developed, and what features you would like to see included in the application, well if you are a BlackBerry user, SBSH is giving you that chance.

Calendar Pro for BlackBerry has been released as a free Beta, so now you can have your say and have some input into what you want your agenda/calendar program let’s you do. Hit the jump to find out how to sign up!

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Doug’s put up a review at our friend site, Gear Diary, of the Clarion MiND, what you may ask is that? I think most of you would only be familiar with Clarion as a car stereo manufacturer, so when they come up with a device like the MiND, [media, internet, navigation device], we are all probably left scratching our heads. The MiND is running a Linux based operating system, and is powered by an 800MHz Atom processor.

So what exactly is it though?

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