White Paper W950

Preliminary version - PA4

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Synchronisation and data transfer

To be truly mobile, users must be able to carry their

 

groupware such as Microsoft™ Outlook™ means

important information with them. Equipping mobile

 

 

 

 

 

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that more and more meetings are booked

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electronically in daily business life.

 

 

programs like calendars, task lists and phonebooks

 

 

 

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gives users access to their most important data

 

W950 uses the SyncML 1.2 protocol for

anywhere and anytime. The information is kept

 

synchronization. This means that it has the

updated by synchronizing it with the information at

 

compatibility to synchronize with a wide variety of

the office or at home. The growing use of

 

devices over a number of different communications

 

 

 

 

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SyncML background

 

W950 uses SyncML for both local synchronization

Leading the way in providing remote

 

(with a PC using Bluetooth™ connectivity or a

synchronization capability, Sony Ericsson realizes

 

cable connection) and remote synchronization over

that interoperability of remote synchronization is of

 

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utmost importance if mobile data usage is to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

become as widespread as generally predicted.

 

What information can be

 

 

That is why Ericsson, along with IBM, Lotus,

 

 

 

Motorola, Matsushita, Nokia, Palm Inc., Psion and

 

synchronized in the W950?

 

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Starfish Software, founded the SyncML initiative in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 2000. Supported by more than 600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

software and hardwarendevelopers, the SyncML

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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open standard for remote synchronization, called

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SyncML. Unlike many other synchronization

 

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platforms, SyncML is an open industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

specification that offers universal interoperability.

 

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Since it uses a common language, called XML, for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

specifying the messages that synchronize devices

 

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and applications, SyncML has been called the only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

truly future-proof platform for enabling reliable and

 

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immediate update of data. The benefit for the end

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

user is that SyncML can be used almost anywhere

 

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and in a wide variety of devices, regardless of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

application or operating system.

 

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June 2006