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Funambol – Wirelesly sync your iPhone contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes

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myFunambol is a service that let’s you wirelessly sync your contacts, calendar, tasks and notes between your iPhone and almost any other device (Outlook, pocketpc, smartphone, ipod) . Funambol will soon offer push-mail and push calendar features much like the new Mobile.me service that Apple announced at WWDC 2008. Funambol isn’t a new service, the have already 1.500.000.000 phones using the free service!
You can access the service via 2 ways. Either via safari by browsing to my.funambol.com/iPhone or via the iPhone native version that is currently limited to only support contact syncing but soon we will see the calendar, tasks and notes integrated in the app and hopefully push services too.
The official site states:

  • Wirelessly sync contacts from other phones, over-the-air, to myFUNAMBOL. myFUNAMBOL would then contain the contacts from other phones.
  • Wirelessly sync contacts from Outlook (or other email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird) to myFUNAMBOL.
  • Access and use these contacts on the iPhone.

The way it works is very easy. Subscribe on the my.funambol site. Await and confirm the registration mail. Download the Outlook plugin. Sync you contacts, calendar and notes. And install the native iPhone or iPod touch client.

The iPhone client is very intuitive to use, you only have 4 buttons. (sync all, sync contacts, sync calendar, sync tasks and sync notes (the later 3 are not yet supported).

Safari screenshots.

Native jailbroken version.

Via iPhoneClub

This little app is available in the Installer.app through the STE packaging source, see our sources page.

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12 Comments

  • At 2008.06.11 16:33, Roy Chang said:

    good stuff !! thanks

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    • At 2008.06.20 15:58, Eddie Monge said:

      It’s not just for the iPhone either. The service is built on what used to be called sync4j. It looks like it is a really great service and now that I have a phone that supports Funambol again, I am using it and it nice knowing that backup is there. It’s also convenient to be able to enter things online and have it sync with my phone. A real time saver.

      http://blog.eddiemonge.com

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      • At 2008.07.25 16:27, Sputnik55 said:

        Sounds great, but when is it ready? Specifically, when will tasks and notes sync between outlook and the iPhone?

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        • At 2008.07.26 23:56, emac said:

          Does anyone have the answer to the question above———when is the above ready for tasks?

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          • At 2008.07.28 20:05, AndrewGoldy said:

            Note, that with the v2.0 firmware ONLY contacts sync! They are still working on getting Calendar & Notes & Tasks to sync!!!!

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            • At 2008.07.30 06:11, ScottMartin said:

              Would love to hear when it is updated to support calendars and tasks. Someone do let us know!

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              • At 2008.09.27 16:52, Ralph said:

                Any news about a date for the update mentioned above?
                does any body know anything about this?

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                • At 2009.03.19 16:47, Albe said:

                  I forgot to tell that it synchronize elements with Exchange Server….

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                  • At 2009.04.01 21:38, shawn said:

                    do you think Apple will allow a solution that takes money out of their pocket with mobileme? My guess is looking at the age of this article and posts that the solution with Funambol is there and the approval process with the App Store will never come…

                    Will it only be available for jailbreaking is my guess…

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                    • At 2009.05.21 07:26, Jimmy said:

                      Check out TaskTask which allows you to sync your iPhone tasks directly with Microsoft Exchange – http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315815749&mt=8

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                      • At 2009.06.11 04:19, Dan said:

                        Still holdng out hope that funambol will be able to update sync for calendar and tasks. Would be nice.

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                        • At 2009.06.26 13:26, lewis.donofrio said:

                          *bump* any word on task syncing within 2.X firmware? No need for 3.0 as of yet….

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