Daniel Eran Dilger
One of the most important features in making a mobile useful is its ability to sync with outside data. Here’s what the iPhone can and can’t do relative to:

• syncing via USB with a desktop computer.
• syncing wirelessly over WiFi or Bluetooth to a desktop or other device.
• syncing over the air directly with Internet servers.

Each type of sync mechanism involves different types of content: data, documents, and media files. The iPhone’s features are promised to improve via software updates, but this article focuses on the iPhone’s existing sync features, and provides comparisons to how other mobile devices work.

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