Mobile Device Synchronization

The preceding discussion notwithstanding, most users do not consider their mobile devices to be islands unto themselves. Instead, they treat their devices as an extension of their primary computing device that, even if it happens to be portable, stays at work or at home while the mobile computing device goes on the road with the user. However, because many of the same changes to a user’s calendar, contacts, and personal files can be made from the mobile device as easily as from the primary computer, frequent synchronization of the two devices is in order. Synchronization is the act of mirroring all unique changes and additions from each device to the other.

In most cases, there are multiple options as to how the ...

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