If you’ve read my last couple of posts, you’ll know that I am, overall, extremely happy with my HTC Desire phone. Once HTC/Orange get around to pushing out Android 2.2 I suspect I will be even happier 
However, I have had a couple of mishaps. My previously mentioned fail with the Sense launcher was mostly harmless, if a little irritating. However, my own impatience with my Mac mounting the phone the other day lead to a worse problem – the microsd card wasn’t mounted/unmounted properly and failed to read either in my phone or on the Mac. The only solution was to format it. This meant I lost everything on it, some of which had been on it from my previous phone. I load a load of photos – nothing spectacular, but quite upsetting.
And so to the problem of syncing…..
There are a number of options available for Android. None of which are as good as iTunes, I suspect… DoubleTwist is an attempt to mimic iTunes-like functionality with an Android phone. However, I’m not overly impressed with it as a piece of software. They’ve just released a client app on the phone too – I guess I might check it out, but I’m not convinced by the reviews I’ve seen so far.
The Missing Sync promise to be a great solution, but it is $40 which grates a little. Plus, it seems to sync _everything_. As I noted in my previous post, I have a load of stuff that _already_ syncs. Contacts, mail and calendar are all sorted. There are only 2 things left I need to sync (that I can think of) – Photos/Videos and the HTC auto-backup file. (Apps is a possibility, but I’m thinking of going with AppBrain on that, as it seems a popular choice)
MyBackup is an online service with an Android app that appears to be highly rated….. but 2GB of space? That seems somewhat paltry for backing up images.
Google, of course, have their own image service – Picasa. Sadly, though, it doesn’t look like the integration with Android is there. And so I think I’m just going to sync photos with my laptop using….. the built in Image Capture programme for syncing with cameras. And I’ll make copies of the autobackup files too.
However, I will play around with DoubleTwist for a while as well, as it’s free , just in case I’ve missed something important.
mrBen