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Om, I thought you were done with the iPhone. Still in denial I see.

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Hi Om,

maybe you should try Synkia.com for your Nokia N95 or any other SyncML compatible mobile phone or device (in excess of 1 billion currently on the market). Synkia will back up and archive all your SMS messages online. By using Synkia’s service you can also synchronize address book information, tasks, notes. You can also easily migrate data from one device to another.

Synkia’s SMS backup is performed as a onetime action of synchronization between a mobile phone and the Synkia server, together with all personal data. In the SMS section of Synkia’s web application users have a backup of all messages still present on their phones and an unlimited archive of all messages ever backed up with Synkia, no matter if they are still on the phone or not. Rich search functions allow the user to find a specific messages by key words, date sent or received and by the sender’s name.

And as more people store digital contact data in multiple places, a server-based address book, such as Synkia’s, is able to unify your contacts and keep them all in sync. Synkia integrates this all into an online portal at http://www.Synkia.com

Synkia’s solution supports a wide range of mobile devices including:

• SyncML enabled phones, including models from Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericcson and others
• Windows Mobile devices, devices such as BlackBerries and Palm Treos, via third party software

Synkia ensures that data is up-to-date on every device and server.

Regards, Jo Mosaku

Disclosure: I currently work for Synkia AS, headquartered in Oslo, Norway with development team based in Kraków, Poland

[...] Joining the cacophony of OS X apps that only do one thing (but one thing really well), here’s the Syphone. It’s freeware, which is nice, and serves to back up your SMS messages so you can read them later. It even allows you to–if we’re reading this right–import messages to your phone, which means you can covertly inject a message into your buddy’s phone from his ex asking whether he wants to get back together. We’re probably reading that wrong. [Micromat via SMS Text News via Giga Om] [...]

Syphone only works on a Mac OS. Is there any way I can back up my Iphone SMS messages to my PC? If anyone knows, please help :) Thanks!

Om,
Syphone is pretty cute for your own personal private archive. We make an SMS archiving app but instead of saving to your computer we save them online.

Treasuremytext (the original SMS archive) saves people’s favorite SMS messages online. When saved, users can organise and share their messages. Our users from all over the world save messages simply by forwarding them to our standard rate mobile number: hassle free with no compatibility issues, it works on any phone, any network, anywhere.

Until that is iPhone came along. The Treasuremytext Dev Team has iPhones and we quickly found we couldn’t use our own service with our iPhones as there was no way of forwarding messages. Of course the iPhone offers us a much better way to archive messages using EDGE or Wifi, so if we could build an iPhone app that lets iPhone users archive some or all messages to Treasuremytext, then we would make Treasuremytext better for iPhone users as it would be free to use (rather than the cost of the forwarded SMS).

Treasuremytext 2 is now in beta, and the iPhone app is very nearly ready for launch. The beta is running with a Netherlands phone number right now but we are launching localized versions in UK, NL and USA soon.

For invites to try out the new Treasuremytext see: http://beta.treasuremytext.com/Apps/WebObjects/SMS.woa/wa/goCreateAccount

Best,

Katie Lips
http://beta.treasuremytext.com
http://blog.treasuremytext.com

How can I save TXT msgs to my PC? Syphone is good for MAC, but what application can I use for PC? Thanks.

I want to know how can i save sms from my nokia communicator.. nokia 9300.. pls help me out.. I am using windows xp..

Yes, I am wondering the same thing, too. How can I save my text messages and voice mail to Windows XP, or Vista? This very frustrating. I like the iPhone, but am not going to become a Mac user. Am strongly considering going to the Sony Xperia when it comes out. So tired of the non-compatibility with this phone and my Windows OS. If anyone has a solution or knows of some software, other than jailbreaking the phone, I’d love to hear. Thanks.

Here is a website that i came across that has an application for Windows users. I downloaded and tried to use it but there were problems. The same thing may happen for you but trying shouldn’t hurt. If any one else has an answer to the SMS archive issues on Windows with iPhones please let me know.

http://homepage.mac.com/vaughn/msync/

I’ve just downloaded the program, run, nothing worked, shut down and reopened and it won’t load up… clearly still in very early beta testing!

try again next time Syphone

I had to restart my Mac after installing Syphone– and that made it work. Didn’t work until I restarted. FYI.