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5.1 About Synchronization

You can take information from your computer wherever you go by synchronizing them to your device. The following types of information can be synchronized between your computer and your device:

Microsoft Outlook® information, which include Outlook e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes

Media, such as pictures, music and video

Favorites, which are the bookmarked links to your favorite web sites

Files, such as documents and other files

Before you can synchronize, you need to install and set up first the synchronization software on your computer. For more information, see “Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista™” and “Setting Up ActiveSync® on Windows XP®”.

Ways to synchronize

After you have installed the synchronization software to your computer, connect and synchronize your device with your computer by using one of the following methods:

Connect and synchronize using the supplied USB sync cable. Upon connecting the sync cable to your device and your computer, the synchronization process starts automatically.

Connect and synchronize using Bluetooth.

You must first set up a Bluetooth partnership between your device and your computer before you can synchronize information between them using Bluetooth. For more information about setting up

a Bluetooth partnership, see Chapter 10. For information about synchronizing through Bluetooth, see “Synchronizing via Bluetooth” later in this chapter.

Try to synchronize frequently in order to keep information up-to-date in both your device and your computer.

Note You can also synchronize Outlook e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks on your device with the Exchange Server at your work. For more information about setting up your device to synchronize with the Exchange Server, see Chapter 8.

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