It's a seemingly daunting list of technology requirements, but once you've stepped onto the march of complex user-needs that can be resolved by cell phone, you're going to end up here sooner than later! Many keyboard-enabled cell phones boast the ability to sync to corporate e-mail apps such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook, among them Sierra Wireless. Check you product manual, you might find yours is already for synching!

EMail: if your phone provider blocks port 25, you won’t be able to use your usual SMTP account to send mail. This means you may have to use your wireless mail service's SMTP server.

Mobile Action's Handset Manager 9.0. Compatible with almost all cell phones, it can swap contacts between your handset and your PC, it also sends camera phone pictures, videos, games, text, and other data.

Susteen's DataPilot Universal Kit. has most of the same functionality as Handset Manager except for transferring videos. DataPilot can be synced with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Palm Desktop

FutureDial Suite is the easiest to install of the three products. As with the DataPilot, two tools can be kept open at once, and it lets suers sync their Outlook contacts. It can also exporting of contacts to an Excel file on your PC.