March 21, 2011 By

HOW TO: Sync your Windows Phone 7 smartphone

How to Sync Windows Phone with OutlookOne of the biggest disappointments and issues for many users who have or wish to move to a Windows Phone 7 device is the lack of ease with which they can connect their smartphone to a PC and sync it with Outlook that they use on their PC.

Previous version of Windows Mobile did this with ease and everyone was happy.  Despite mobile phone tariffs having data connections which can be left on etc, the simplicity of once a day connecting to a PC with a cable is just too great for some, especially if this has been the habit for the last few years.

Windows Phone 7 backs the device up to the ‘Cloud’, a Windows Live account.  This is all well and good as you know your data is constantly backed up, but when working at your desk many do not want to go to a web portal to access and amend content, or do this on the phone itself, they want to do it within Outlook.

The good news is, that this is possible, it takes just a few short steps!

Device Magazine have put together a great guide on how to do this.

It simply involves connecting your Windows Live account to Outlook on your PC using Outlook Connector.  It will take only only a few minutes to do.

The result?  Once connected, providing your smartphone and PC have connections to the internet, you can be assured that your phone, desktop and the web will all stay in sync with each other.  So if you add a contact when out of the office to your phone, by the time you are back your Outlook contact database will have been updated to show the new contact – this principle applies to calendar appointments and emails too!  Perfect.

See how to complete this in a few simple steps HERE

SOURCE: Device Magazine

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Comments

  1. Anon says:
    March 21, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    This process is fine if you’re happy for your confidential data to be in the cloud – data protection issues stop me from having a WP7. I also understand that even if you are happy to do this, there are quite low limits of how many contacts etc you can have (<1,000). WP7 is a disappointing op system – Android is much more flexible and can be customised. Shame on Msoft for not allowing desktop sync with its own Outlook program.

  2. Clove says:
    March 21, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Chris we agree with some of the comments – data protection can be an issue, but for most ‘individuals’ outside of an organisation this is fine especially as few have 1000 or more contacts – but we get the point!

    It is a shame Microsoft have left themselves down from a corporate point of view. Many organisations still opting for older Windows Mobile 6.5 devices in preference.