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Syphone - 0.99b11

save, archive, view your iPhone SMS messages on your Mac

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All Time:	(3.5)
This Version:	(2.0)
Current Version:	0.99b11
Release Date:	2007-10-22
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	7,780
Downloads (all versions):	8,369

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Product Description:

Syphone is a freeware Macintosh utility for use with Apple's iPhone. The program installs on your Macintosh and does not alter the iPhone in any way. This application lets you view, save, and back up your SMS messages. With Syphone you can now archive and view SMS conversations, including those that have been deleted from the iPhone. The iPhone has a limit on the number of SMS messages it can store at one time. If this limit is exceeded, existing conversations must be deleted in order to make room for new messages. Syphone allows you to view and/or save any of these conversations, including deleted messages. It uses the familiar iChat format to display archived SMS messages. In addition, if you have multiple iPhones synced to your computer, Syphone allows you to view and archive messages from any of the iPhones. Syphone allows an iPhone user with a Macintosh to:

View synced iPhone SMS messages on your Macintosh.

Archive SMS messages.

Import/export SMS messages.

View SMS messages offline in an iChat-like interface with selectable colors.

Open Address Book contacts.

View the number of sent and received messages for each contact.

Support multiple iPhones.

What's new in this version:

Preliminary PDF export capability: I know it has some bubble alignment problems, hence why it's "preliminary."
More informative status text, including when an iPhone has been connected to the computer, also informing users of the "sync-on-disconnect" policy.
Preference panel now includes information on when Syphone was last synced to the iTunes snapshot database.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

iTunes 7.4 or greater.
iPhone

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This Version:
Overall Rating:	(2.0)	Features:	(2.7)	Support:	(1.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(2.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Abandoned. - Version: 0.99b11, 5/30/2009 06:53PM PST

jkb4

Well, Syphone users,

It seems MicroMat won't talk about the future of the product except to say they are considering the future of the product.

It seems that iTunes 8.1 changed the way the database is written or something, and Syphone can no longer read it. Basically, if you update to iTunes 8.1, you won't be able to back up your iPhone texts any more until it's fixed (which it probably won't be).

If anyone is interested in giving product suggestions for a COMPETITIVE product that <b>WORKS</b>, please leave them here.

For example, the features I would most like to see are:
The ability to search,
The ability to export the entire database for backup

It's a shame-it was a good product.

Thanks.

Working for me - Mac OS X 10.5.6, iPhone 2.2 - Version: 0.99b11, 1/28/2009 08:10PM PST

Krioni

Working for me - Mac OS X 10.5.6, iPhone 2.2

Syphone is great, and it still works here. I wish it had a feature to export ALL messages, rather tahn one number at a time, but I'm glad we've got something.

Not compatible with iPhone software version 2.1 - Version: 0.99b11, 9/27/2008 10:27PM PST