PalmCast Episode 62: Pre vs. iPhone 3.0 57

Great podcast, guys. You brought up an interesting point about Synergy that made me think about what it really does.

I think the Pre has to, in some way, sync all the information it's pulling down from the internet. It wouldn't make sense to constantly pull data and not have any local storage (otherwise you wouldn't be able to access phone numbers, email addresses, etc. while in airplane mode). It has to be stored on the phone in some way or another, and therefore must be synced in some way or another.

I have no idea how they did it, but if it works as advertised, then Synergy is Palm's solution to the "sync problem." They're not just looking at the problem in a different way.

(How does it do this? I would guess it uses a local copy as a backup; whenever you search or use the contacts, it would query the server to see if there are updates and overwrite the local copy, unless you change it or add in the information.)