Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your phone - specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud, or by helping you download files from the phone to your local computer.

• Contacts: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the Internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail. If you lose, or simply change your phone, all you need to do is to synchronize the contacts using Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta, and all the contacts that you stored in your Windows Live Contacts store will be downloaded to your phone. You can synchronize your contacts as many times as you like so that the changes you make (edits, additions or deletions) on your phone, or on the computer on Windows Live Contacts are always reflected on both your phone and the Windows Live Contacts store.
• Music, Pictures and Video: In its current form, Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on.
• Communication with your phone: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta can communicate with your phone via a wireless standard known as Bluetooth, or via a USB cable.
• In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application.

In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application.

System Requirements

Your computer needs to have the following minimum requirements for Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta application to run:

• One of the following Operating Systems:
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 32 bit version
• Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32 bit version
• Microsoft Windows Vista 32 bit version
• 256 MB of RAM
• 200 MB of available disk space
• 800×600 screen resolution(1024×768 recommended)
• Bluetooth Connectivity: In order for the application to communicate with your phone through Bluetooth, your computer needs to either have inbuilt Bluetooth hardware support (e.g. most laptops have Bluetooth inbuilt), or you should have an external USB Bluetooth dongle that you can use. More details about both are given below.
• USB Connectivity: If you choose to use a USB cable to connect your phone with the PC, then
  1. you should use a USB data cable that works with your phone, and
  2. your computer should have the latest available USB cable drivers for your phone (provided by your phone manufacturer) installed.

System Bluetooth requirements

Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology that connects computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices and allows them to communicate wirelessly over short distances. Many computers (especially laptops) come with the Bluetooth functionality pre-installed.If your computer/laptop does not have pre-installed Bluetooth functionality, you may be able to buy a USB-based Bluetooth dongle that will provide Bluetooth functionality for your computer.

The Phone Data Manager Beta application works only with those Bluetooth dongles/adapters that are compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack. If your dongle supports Microsoft’s Bluetooth stack then once you insert the dongle, the computer will recognize and automatically install the required drivers when you plug in the dongle into the USB slot (without needing any additional dongle vendor provided CD)

• If you are using Windows Vista, ensure that your dongle is on the list of Bluetooth dongles that work with Windows Vista and are also compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack.
• If you are using Windows XP, ensure that your dongle is on the list of Bluetooth dongles that work with Windows XP and are also compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack.

In case your Bluetooth dongle is not automatically recognized by Windows XP or Windows Vista then please refer to troubleshooting information on how to configure a Bluetooth dongle.

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