Syncfriend.com is essentially a central tool a cell phone user may use to synchronize and backup their mobile phone's (and Outlook) contacts and calendar for free over the internet.
One thing Syncfriend offers consumers that no other site or service does is its ability to deliver other people's contact information (with their permission) to your phone. Both you and your friends may share each other's contacts in an equally effortless way and not have to worry about losing your contacts because they're stored securely online. Proper programming has been taken into consideration so common contacts will not be duplicated in your phone.
You may edit the information on each of your contacts on a provided user interface with Syncfriend. Information such as email, home addresses, business title, and more may be entered quickly with ease.
Cell phone users in the United States have increased from 34 million a decade ago to more than 203 million[1]. As a nation, approximately two out of three individuals owns a cell phone. With this widespread use of a common device, there will always be emerging needs that will change along with the technology improvements of the cell phone.
Getting down to the basics, the one thing all phones have in common are contacts. Names and numbers need to be entered manually for each phone. I realize that there are tools which exist on Apple Macs such as iSync which will (via Bluetooth) allow you to sync your contacts on certain phones with your computer. If you aren't a Mac user or happen to own a phone that isn't compatible with iSync, you're out of luck. The average cell phone user has approximately 60 contacts[2], and manually entering in the names and numbers of each contact is tedious and time consuming.
When a cell phone user switches to a new provider or simply upgrades to a new phone, switching contacts is typically performed at the provider's location and often includes a $10-$20 fee. People pay because spending 1-2 hours entering in contact information with small cell phone buttons is neither fun nor enjoyable. Syncfriend is a free service and is available to everyone.
The entire idea behind Syncfriend is that users only have to maintain their own personal profile. When you make a change to your profile, all your friends' phonebooks will be automatically self-updated and vice versa. As Black Eyed Peas put it, "We are the now generation" and we want things immediately. Anything that saves us time is valuable and will be (if it isn't already) in high demand. Let's take a look at just a few items:
- Cars replaced bikes which replaced walking/running to get from place to place
- Wikipedia replaced the need to pull out one of the dozens of encyclopedia (sometimes outdated) books
- Microwaves replaced the need to manually heat/prepare food and meals
- Digital music is replacing physical CDs
- Online ordering is slowly replacing the need to physically shop at stores
There are very few people in the US who haven't driven a car, searched Wikipedia, used a microwave, listed to music digitally, or ordered something online. That's because those items all had one thing in common. They were created with the purpose to expedite a former slow process.
In conclusion, Syncfriend is a free tool designed to synchronize and backup your contacts as well as the contact information of your friends. It replaces the tedious task of re-entering in contact information or paying a provider to give that service to you. With cell phones rapidly increasing in popularity and demand, consumers will be looking for simple ways to enter in their contact information and back it up. Syncfriend.com takes the tedious cell phone functionality of saving contact information, and simplifies it in a more efficient and effective way. For those reasons, I believe Syncfriend.com is one of the best startup businesses on the internet.
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Add to this a discussion of how you've used it and also taught it to others or engaged others through this and it will count as one of your digital literacy labs. Nice, thorough explanation of its features.
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