Microsoft My Phone begins beta testing, acceptance email received

Well that didn’t take long!  At just about 6pm pst this evening I got an email from Microsoft:

myphoneEmail

WooHoo!  Off to the download page, which sends a text message to the phone, and from there its a 557kb download.  At this point, the service doesn’t seem to be quite up to speed, as the next step after installing the .cab and agreeing to the Terms of Service (no nda, I actually read a TOS!), the next step is to sign in, which it won’t let me do at this point.  That’s somewhat understandable, as the service has only been up for a few minutes.  We’ll give it some time before freaking out, and hopefully have more on My Phone soon.

In the meantime, there is a My Phone blog, a Twitter account (which has given away at least one Promo code), and a User Forum.  A quick read through the forum entries shows that people are already asking about Windows Live integration for things like Calendar, etc.  The official answer seems to be “not at this time”, but a lot could happen between now, Wave 4 of Windows Live, and the second half of the year when Windows Mobile 6.5 sees the light of day. (updated, oops forgot the links)

Comments

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Alber1690/default.aspx Alber1690

    Was able to download it too, but when it comes to signing in during the installation process, it says the service is unavailable or I should “activate” my account…but there’s no way to do that on the My Phone site.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Hb8/default.aspx Hb8

    While I’m still interested and can’t wait to get a beta invite off the waitlist, I’m still befuddled why this wasn’t created as part of the existing Windows Live offerings. I wish someone could explain this clearly.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/mcrobbiegt/default.aspx mcrobbiegt

    Is MyPhone worth subscribing to if you use a smart phone?

    I find that my contacts are already backed up via hotmail and I dont need to really save my text messages.

    Any photos are usually uploaded to my computer every day when I sync it to my work computer.

    So is MyPhone designed more for the non-smartphone market?

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/emiliano84/default.aspx emiliano84

    i just tryed…nice…but we need a full integration windows live services not another service!!!

  • http://www.sysadmin.it sp1der

    that disappointment…
    I hoped to be able to synchronize my pocketpc calendar with my live calendar… :-(

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/yanverm/default.aspx yanverm

    same reaction, works fine, but where is “the windows live?” :-)