PhoneView 2.0 for Mac Released

Posted by Eric March on May 16, 2008 at 9:04 am

You Mac blokes certainly have something over us Windows users when it comes to a direct link to your iPhone’s databases: Ecamm Network’s PhoneView 2.0. Originally designed to be a pseudo-USB Removable Storage application called MegaPhone that allowed you to store any data (like the original iPods could do out of the box), The latest version of this sweet app gives Mac OS X users direct access to call and SMS history, music, videos, photos, contacts, and notes, all within one application. It’s a lot like the classic Palm Desktop for Palm devices, which I loved and rather miss.

This latest version has undergone some significant upgrades. For starters, access to your notes just got a whole lot more useful: You can now not only back up and edit your notes, but you can also import text files, MS Word documents, Adobe Acrobat PDF documents, and more simply by dragging and dropping the documents into PhoneView 2.0.

As if that wasn’t enough, PhoneView will also automatically archive the iPhone’s SMS and call history, which is handy for those that want to be able to keep records of more than just the last 100 entries, which is all the iPhone itself will store. Furthermore, PhoneView 2.0 gives you access to your contact list and provides search abilities.

PhoneView is available for $19.99 directly from Ecamm’s product page, but you can download a demo version to try it out yourself. Now if only someone would create something like this for Windows, I’d be a happy man.

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