BTW, we have tested SoonR on Blackberry, Treo, RazR, Various Windows smartphones, Nokia series 60, Motorola V710, and numerous other candybar and flip phones. Even the phones you get for free with a service contract can use SoonR at reasonable speeds. You do NOT have to have a high end phone to run SoonR. If you have a phone that appears to be incompatible, please send a note to support@soonr.com with the manufacturer and model number and we will respond!

If you do have EVDO (VERIZON XV6600, XV6601, Samsung i730, Sprint PPC 6700)or another 3G technology, SoonR is just awesome. We have seen the future. It is in your hands!

Just thought I’d offer up some insight on my experience with Soonr thus far. I’ve been using Soonr for over a month now – I’ve got the client installed on 2 different machines – one server on my home network, and one on my laptop, which bounces back and forth from my home network, corporate LAN, and 11b/g clouds.

Using my Motorola RAZR phone, I’ve successfully connected to Soonr, accessed content in my shared folders (on either machine running the client), emailed items from my shared folders, added a colleague to one of my shared folders, retrieved meeting info and calendar events from my outlook calendar.

I’ve been switching back and forth between a T-Mobile SIM and a Cingular SIM, using their standard GPRS services and the Razr’s built in browser as the underlying network connection. Have not noticed any differences from one provider to the other.

Can’t wait to see how well Soonr works with the slow to emerge >3g data networks that are supposedly making their way to the domestic markets here in the US. I’m looking at HSDPA from Cingular, but I’m not going to hold my breath, as I’ve yet to find a device that supports this tech.

I’ve found that I’m able to connect to soonr.com from my RAZR on a consistent basis. It’s a bit slow using GPRS, but I’m usually able to browse through my shared folders, access files, email files, and retrieve my outlook calendar without any real problems.

On a slightly less consistent basis I’m able to execute GDS searches, browse the results, access a file from the results set.

One of the really cool aspects of Soonr is how items that you access from shared folders and/or GDS searches are streamed back to primitive phone browsers like I have in my Razr. I have not accessed Soonr with devices that have more sophisticated browsers (e.g. symbian phones, ppc phones, etC).

For example, on my Razr, the default behavior (as far as I can tell) is as follows: (1) images are resized automagically for your phone’s display (with options to view original size), (2) txt files are streamed directly to the browser (instead of as an attachment), (3) word docs appear to somehow be converted to txt and streamed directly to the browser, and (4) HTML files are returned in a summary view with the filename, file size, and the option to execute a “get” command.

I found that after executing the “get” command for an .html file that’s in one of my shared folders the page is rendered directly in my browser (as best as it can be). Obviously your mileage will vary depending on the content of the HTML and any embedded scripting, dhtml, etc. Very cool.

I’m having the most challenges with getting conneccted to my Inbox, but I’m working on that.

I’d like to point out that the soonr guys are VERY responsive to my feedback, questions, issues, etc and have fixed a number of minor problems that I’ve had. All in all, this is very cool tech, that I’m starting to find interesting uses for.

Keep up the great work Soonr!

Many companies, large and small, are trying to blur the line between the user’s experience, including access to media assets, on his/her desktop and mobile. SoonR has a very good start towards helping achieve that vision. The sharing part is, at this point, nice to have, but it’s also becoming a parity feature for new companies in this space, so it’s hard to leave out even if the value cannot be appreciated, yet.

BTW, I am in no way associated w. SoonR.

When working with large files SoonR utilizes strategies to make the performance acceptable. If you want to transfer a large file, SoonR remote controls the host PC and leverages its wider pipe. Most of the SoonR users are in fact NOT using 3G phones.

Accessing your desktop over a WAP/phone browser connection? Sharing photos, files with friends? Via a WAP connection? OM, have you really tried this application?

Maybe it will work better when 3G is here, and fully deployed, so you can get that vaunted 128 connection to your phones–and that will be in a few months, right?

I was up and running in no time and it all worked as promised. I am sure it will look a lot slicker once out of beta or as the company has the time to beef up the UI (especially on the mobile), but it works.

Although the ‘save’ option is not provided by SoonR on the mobile, it’s possible to save images or audio files, depending on your carrier (if in U.S.) and device type.

If interested, put me in your contact list on SoonR … my handle is, naturally, ‘kaveh’ :)