Along with the new 3G iPhone announcements, Apple have also announced MobileMe. MobileMe is a new online application suite to keep track of your contacts, emails, calendars, photos and online files. It also acts as a universal ‘hub’ for all your information, so the applications on your iPhone, Mac computer, or PC can keep synchronised.

It’s basically an online version of the Mac OSX apps iCal, Mail, Address Book and iPhoto. Personally I use all these applications alot, so having a version online, that can be sync’ed to all the different devices I have has really got me interested. iCal is pretty much the best application in the world.

Here is the basic list of features taken from the MobileMe website:

Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there’s MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC are always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere.

Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar.
MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on an online server — or “cloud” — and pushes them down to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. Push happens automatically, instantly, and continuously. You don’t have to wait for it or remember to do anything — such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually — to stay up to date.

Works with the native applications you know.
Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Your web applications at me.com.
Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk — that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you’re using desktop software.

MobileMe is coming out as a replacement for Apple’s .mac accounts.

The MobileMe announcement site is here: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

You can hear their huge plug about MobileMe here: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/guidedtour/index.html?size=medium

Well I’m definately looking forward to this one.

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