Though I am not personally biased to any type of PDA phone like Blackberry, Windows Mobile or PalmOS I currently use a Samsung Blackjack II by AT&T that runs Windows Mobile 6.0. All of these devices support wireless syncing of your Outlook data to your phone over the cellular network.

What is so great about wireless syncing of my data on my Windows Mobile phone? Let me first start by outlining what data your phone will sync with your outlook. The Windows Mobile platform will sync your inbox and sub folders, sent items, contacts, calendar and tasks between your phone and your Outlook.

The days of cable syncing are over. We can all afford this ingenuous technology to save us time and increase our collaboration with co-workers. Back in the day I use to have to remember to plug in my phone to sync this data before leaving my house or office. When someone in my office wanted to add an appointment to my calendar I would not see it till I got back and synced my phone.

Now with wireless sync as I am working in Outlook the changes I am making to my inbox, calendar, contacts and tasks are being synced to my Windows Mobile phone in real-time. If I want to leave the office I simply grab the phone and go with no need to cable sync my device to have that important phone number of the client I justed entered into Outlook that I want to call when I get into my car - it's already on the phone.

Any changes I make to my data on the phone while I am on the road will also be synced wirelessly back to my outlook as well. So if I meet a client at their office then add an appointment to meet them next week within seconds that new appointment is wirelessly added to my Outlook back at the office. If my assistant or a co-worker looks at my calendar from their outlook they will see that I am booked at that time instead of me having to call them to tell them I added an appointment which is the case for the dinosaur cable sync method.

There are two requirements to have this snazzy service on your phone. First you need to have a Microsoft Exchange mailbox and secondly you need to have a data plan on your PDA phone which is like an Internet access plan for the phone and is sold separate from your voice plan. Many hosted exchange providers (like us) include the Windows Mobile syncing with their mailboxes and most mailboxes start around $9.95/month per person.