Software: GSync for backing up texts
By admin on April 2,
 2008 at 00:00,

This cheeky little app lets you automatically archive all your SMS and MMS messages to your Gmail web account. So if you’re keen to keeping safe those personal phone messages and photos for prosperity or evidence, step this way…

Judgement time…

IIf you’re the type of person who holds dear every ‘snugglesbum’ text or would hate to lose that whacky ‘mooning’ MMS from your inebriated mates, then Psiloc’s GSync software is neat way of keeping these multimedia memories safe.

It seems all the rage to back-up your phone messages and multimedia gubbins, so GSync is perfectly timed. It basically sends all your phone’s SMS and MMS messages (received and sent) to your Gmail web email account and archives them as emails.

It’s super simple to get going - just download the app and whack it over to your Symbian Series 60 blower. It’s then just a case of diving into the settings, entering your Gmail email address and password and tinkering around with how often and what message type (SMS and MMS) you want to sync. You can ferry over messages via your network connection manually, immediately, every hour, four, 12 or 24 hours.

There is a limit to how many messages you can sync within a 24-hour period (last count was 200, but honestly, unless you’re an addict, who sends or receives that many?) while messages are flagged in your Gmail window as SMS and read with conversations threaded as per your normal email correspondence.

Psiloc’s GSync is handy software and neat addition to the growing number of Gmail apps popping up all over the place (see our GooSync calendar review). If your whole life centres around Gmail then it’s worth plonking GSync on your S60 smartphone.