Opinionated comments on mobile phone industry news

SoonR, that enables you to access your PC from your mobile phone's browser is evolving, and I recently got a newsletter about two new interesting features:

Page Pre-viewer shows Office documents on your phone's display, so that you for instance can do "emergency presentations" and reviews anywhere you are (handy for instance when meeting business contacts at the airport etc).

Organizer gives you full access to the information in MS Outlook, be it email, calendar, contacts, notes or tasks.

The only real drawback I see with SoonR, and it's rather serious for professionals, is that your PC has to be on to get access to email, files etc (hence it doesn't in my opinion replace e.g. direct access to MS Exchange). In a normal "business man on the road" scenario this can be outright impossible, as you normally bring along both your phone and your laptop computer.

That said, I think SoonR is evolving quite nicely, and is a strong offering when it comes to PC-to-phone information exchange. By SoonR being browser-based instead of e.g. Java-based means it probably works on more phones out-of-the-box than similar services.

Just to be clear, SoonR is not alone on this market. I found similar Java-based services at GetJar, but less and less likely as powerful as SoonR.

Interestingly the site still says "SoonR Beta". Flickr also did for a long time (now it's at "gamma"). It seems nowadays you have to launch services before they are completed, so that no one else gets before you, and by saying your service is "beta" you might get less criticism if not all aspects of the service works, not saying that's the case with SoonR nor Flickr.

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