I recently returned from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where I interviewed Rafi Ton the CEO NewACT.  I met  Rafi because my good friend Harel Shattenstein of TalkingMobile.com set up the interview.  We decided to sit outside in the absolutely gorgeous weather and discuss NewACTs mobile application called vufone, the most interesting new app I saw at MWC, for the sake of transparency I may be a little prejudice because NewACT is a new client of my companies.

vufone is a back up/restore and sync service with Google or Outlook (at the moment) with a large array of handsets.   The whole app is interesting but I don’t use Outlook anymore so I’m jumping at the chance to sync my Google contacts and calendar to my current Nokia, the N79.  I have already completed a sync and I am thoroughly impressed with vufone.

Right now my only complaint is how often you can sync automatically it’s  weekly, biweekly, monthly or manual.  I would like to see an update to this as soon as possible.  We need to have more options like once a day, hourly, etc.

UPDATE:  I got an email from Rafi over the weekend and he informed me that you are able to sync every hour and in the premium version it’s actually every 30 min. Great news and I still have more to learn about vufone. 

Anyway, as far as I know vufone is the only option for syncing Google Calendar/Contacts at this price range.  For the month of March it’s $10 for a year and you can try it free for 14 days.   Anybody who has ever lost their mobile will tell you they would gladly pay big bucks to have their data back.

I’m only covering one of the many aspects of this application, the aspect that interests me the most.  There’s also a calendar, contacts, file, picture, video, document, and text message back up sharing side to this amazing app.

Watch the short interview I did with their CEO last week in Barcelona.

Go give vufone a try, it won’t hurt and you never know, it may turn into your “can’t live without app”.