Windows Phone Thoughts: Sync Different: PocketMac Pro 3.0 Reviewed

File Synchronization
In order to transfer files to and from your Pocket PC, you can select a folder for synchronization (see Figure 1 above), and on the next synchronization all files from that folder will be synchronized to your Pocket PC. File synchronization is a bit slow though. In my experiences with PocketMac Pro 3.0, the PIM information was synchronized pretty fast after the initial sync. If I had selected File Synchronization I would have had to wait quite some time before synchronization would be finished. But in itself, synchronization of files did work without a glitch.

In copying over a single file, I didn't bother using File Synchronization. PocketMac Pro 3.0 will mount your Pocket PC to your Mac, so you might just as well drag and drop using Finder.


Figure 6: View the files on your Pocket PC using the Mac Finder. Click on the image to view it in its original size.

Web Synchronization Options
PocketMac Pro 3.0 gives you a choice of offline Web browsing. There are built in PocketMac Mobile Bookmarks, there's Mazingo (although that should be past tense), and there's Avantgo.


Figure 7: Set up your favorite offline Web browsing method. Click on the image to view it in its original size.

I couldn't manage to get the PocketMac Mobile Bookmarks to sync the Pocket PC Thoughts front page to my Pocket PC. It did sync over quite a few other sites, but in the end the sync plug-in would mysteriously shut down. And if it can't do Pocket PC Thoughts, well... Happily my old Avantgo setup worked fine, so I still could have my share of offline Web browsing.