First look at Live Mesh on the iPhone!

LivemeshmobileiphoneWhile yesterday saw greater availability of Microsoft’s Windows Live Mesh technical preview, I was grousing about a few things: one, no mobile access and two, no Mac access. To a small degree, the first issue is beginning to go away thanks a mobile-formatted Mesh site. The folks at LiveSide.net caught wind of the basic entry point found at http://m.mesh.com and they’ve already hit it up on a Windows Mobile device. Marching to a different drum beat, I hit it just now my iPhone and sure enough, I’m in!

Using the mobile browser, I can see my Live Desktop folders as well as all of their contents; the Live Desktop is essentially the server where docs are stored and synced between devices. On my iPhone, I can see the files that replicated on my UMPC and another device (to be named later), so I can effectively get at my data from any of these devices or any web browser. Very nice. You can also view the News function of Live Mesh: this is the history of what actions you’ve taken: added folders, fiiles, inivited others to a folder, etc… Again, the functionality is limited but does show promise. Right now I can download any pics I have stored in the Mesh, invite others to a shared folder and create new folders; all of coure which replicated across devices in my Mesh.

It’s an early look of course, but mobile access is one of the biggest gaps right now so it’s good to see. Now about that other gap I mentioned… you’ll have to wait a bit for the big news there.

Update: I noticed that I can’t yet add files to my Mesh from my iPhone; something that Windows Mobile devices can do, at least with photos.

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