Vaibhav Sharma highlights a useful feature of recent-model Nokia phones on The Symbian Blog. The phones come with an application called “Switch” which is intended to allow purchasers of a new phone to transfer (switch) the content of their existing phone to the new one. In fact it can do a lot more than that.
It also allows you to keep two Nokia phones synchronized without using a PC to drive the sync process. Syncing can be via infra-red, WLAN or Bluetooth. Depending on the phone model not all methods may be available. Pretty well any data on the phones can be synced – not just contacts or calendars, but also images, call lists, MMS/SMS messages, and music. I had noticed the Switch application on our new E51 phones, but hadn’t realized how powerful it is.
I don’t think we’ll use it much as we sync our contacts and calendars, some excel sheets, as well as encrypted password files with our Macs too, and need to keep everything everywhere in sync, but if you are only concerned about keeping several phones in sync, it would be much simpler to use Switch.
