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« on: June 04, 2008, 12:41:40 PM »
My local retail Sprint rep, who has his Instinct IN HAND, showed me some of the details.  One I found interesting and exclusive to the Instinct is "Mobile Sync".  This will allow you to upload your contacts to the sprint.com website, where you can add/delete/manage all your contact info, and will sync with the device automatically.  Currently, sprint offers a service called "Wireless Backup" for about $1.99/month, but this is supposed to be much better and FREE to Instinct owners.  I'm sure future sprint phones will have this, but will be new to the Instinct at release. 

I think you have to transfer your contacts from your old phone to the Instinct at the store, "sync" to sprint's website. 

Has anyone else heard of this or can confirm?  Pretty cool, especially when you have 500+ contacts.
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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2008, 06:42:25 AM »
Transfering/Backing Up contacts is very simple and very free with any phone that has bluetooth or a USB cable. Just use a program such as BitPim or any other phone tools software. Paying for such a simple procedure is companies way of squeezing every penny they can out of those who don't know better.
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2008, 06:57:32 AM »
Will the instinct tether to my macbook, OSX 10.5
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2008, 12:27:05 PM »
will the instinct sync with my mac 10.4, cuz i have a htc touch and a blackberry curve and both do not sync currently unless i buy 3rd party software which i do not want to do
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2008, 12:52:13 PM »
I wish I had an answer for you mac users...I will look around and let you guys know if I come up with any information regarding syncing with the macs.
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2008, 01:08:32 PM »
I am pretty sure that $1.99 per month is to store your contacts on Sprint's server.  That way, if you lose your phone or it gets really damaged, they have all of your contacts on their server and they can be saved.

Otherwise, the only way you can transfer your numbers is if your old phone still charges or you can do it through BlueTooth.

So that $1.99/mo. is for people who have REALLY important contacts and don't want to risk losing them in case their phone is lost/stolen/damaged beyond repair.
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2008, 03:31:26 AM »
Mobilesync is the successor to wireless backup.  If there are any previous iDen Direct Connect users, they may have recalled a feature called Nextel Address book.  This is the sequel to it.  Better, faster, web based, able to import Outlook and spreadsheet based contact lists, group lists, etc.
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2008, 11:42:45 AM »
Here is a link to the Sprint instructions for Mobile Sync

http://www.sprint.com/cdma/assets/pdfs/services_guides/organize/sprint_mobile_sync_ug.pdf
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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 02:19:34 PM »
Lets revive this thread and stir into a new direction....
Now that some of us have the phone who has been able to get the Mobile Sync feature working?
I have added all of my contacts to the web but when I click Sync nothing happens.
On the phone when I go to settings-->Mobile Sync I get "your mobile sync feature is being registered. this can take some time" message. Its been like that for a few hours now...Everything else is working fine.
Any similar experiences?
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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2008, 02:32:22 PM »
Quote from: americanslon on June 19, 2008, 02:19:34 PM
Lets revive this thread and stir into a new direction....
Now that some of us have the phone who has been able to get the Mobile Sync feature working?
I have added all of my contacts to the web but when I click Sync nothing happens.
On the phone when I go to settings-->Mobile Sync I get "your mobile sync feature is being registered. this can take some time" message. Its been like that for a few hours now...Everything else is working fine.
Any similar experiences?


i havent even gotten that far lol
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« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2008, 02:40:06 PM »
Quote from: americanslon on June 19, 2008, 02:19:34 PM
Lets revive this thread and stir into a new direction....
Now that some of us have the phone who has been able to get the Mobile Sync feature working?
I have added all of my contacts to the web but when I click Sync nothing happens.
On the phone when I go to settings-->Mobile Sync I get "your mobile sync feature is being registered. this can take some time" message. Its been like that for a few hours now...Everything else is working fine.
Any similar experiences?


Same here, all day...
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« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2008, 02:46:30 PM »
Then I am hoping its just network issue that will be resolved....
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« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2008, 03:29:55 PM »
My mobilesynce feature on the phone does say it's free...
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2008, 05:30:17 PM »
I just asked the rep at the sprint store to transfer my contact list from old phone.
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« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2008, 05:36:47 PM »
Yeah but mobile sync is much more convinient. You can manage contacts online..And its going to work for future phones for some time. So it's not a matter of how to get contacts on the phone (i can just bluetooth them from my old one) but more of why this feature isn't working one my new shiny top of the line phone
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