Funambol: Solutions: Product Library

Solutions: Resources

Product Library

Thanks for your interest in Funambol software. Additional documents may be found in the Open Source section of this website. You can also find podcasts on the current events page.

Datasheets

Open source push email and mobile sync for the rest of us

PDF File, 317KB

Funambol enables service providers to deliver a new generation of low cost easy-to-use push email, contacts and calendars. It supports commodity devices, makes push email easy to use and accesses the most popular email services, all at low cost.


Funambol Carrier Edition

PDF File, 713KB

Funambol Carrier Edition provides service providers with an open source and cost-effective solution to deliver mobile phone backup, synchronization services and push email capabilities to their subscriber base.


Funambol Address Book Synchronization

PDF File, 52KB

This datasheet provides a description of the Funambol solution for syncing mobile device contacts.


Funambol Device Management (DM) Framework

PDF File, 60KB

This datasheet describes the open source-based Funambol DM Framework, which provides the core protocols and services to support efficient, centralized, automated multi-vendor device management.

Technical Backgrounders

Developing and Managing Mobile Applications with SyncML and Funambol

PDF File, 212KB (Registration Required)

This book provides an overview of synchronization concepts and applications, SyncML ,and Funambol data sync and device management software.


Performing Device Management with Funambol

PDF File, 157KB (Registration Required)

This document provides an overview of device management, presents background concepts and includes a technical introduction to the Funambol Device Management server and client API.

Customer Profiles

1&1: Push Email

World's #1 Web Hosting Service Provider Uses Funambol Push Email and Mobile PIM Sync to Address Small and Medium Business Market

Top Contacts Manager: Mobile Sync

World Leading Customer Contact Management Software With Millions of Users Uses Funambol to Perform Mobile Synchronization

Recorded Events

Podcasts, Interviews, Demos and more

Visit our Current Events page to watch and listen to recorded Funambol podcasts, interviews, demos and more.

White Papers, Position Papers & Market Research

Evaluating Mobile Cloud Sync Solutions: From Apple MobileMe to Vodafone Zyb

PDF File, 1,298KB (Registration Required)

This white paper compares 12 leading mobile cloud sync solutions to determine their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvment. It also calculates a mobile cloud sync 'index' for each solution to indicate its level of completeness.


Mobile Sync:
The New World Order

PDF File, 277KB (Registration Required)

This white paper discusses compelling mobile sync trends, requirements for a wireless sync solution and how open source enables a revenue generating mobile sync service.


What the New Google Sync Means
for the Mobile Industry

PDF File, 34KB (Registration Required)

This position paper provides an overview of the new Google Sync service, discusses its implications for the mobile industry, and provides a brief comparison of it with Funambol mobile open source.


Market Potential for
Ad-funded Mobile Email

PDF File, 250KB (Registration Required)

This research report discusses the market potential for ad-funded mobile email by analyzing the results of a survey of users of the mobile ad-enabled myFUNAMBOL portal. It concludes that the potential is good, based on user acceptance of mobile ads, as long as the ads are non-intrusive and relevant, and user privacy is maintained. The report also discusses a projected financial model behind an ad-funded mobile email solution.


Mobile Services in a Downdraft:
8 Benefits of Open Source Mobile'We' Push Email and Mobile Sync

PDF File, 48KB (Registration Required)

This white paper discusses how in difficult economic times, users are more value conscious, yet they still view mobile messaging as essential to their businesses and lives. It describes the 8 reasons why an open source Mobile'We' push email and mobile sync solution is needed more than ever.


Open MobileWe for the Rest of Us

PDF File, 550KB (Registration Required)

This Funambol position paper describes Apple MobileMe and its impact on the industry. It also discusses how Funambol provides an open source "MobileWe" alternative for service providers, portals, mobile operators and device manufacturers.


Free For All:
The Untapped Opportunity for
Mass Market Mobile Email

PDF File, 428KB (Registration Required)

This white paper, written by Peggy Anne Salz of mSearchGroove, describes the latest market trends and opportunities for service providers, mobile operators and portals to provide mobile email for the mass market.


Open Source Push Email & PIM for the Consumer Market

PDF File, 1.6 MB (Registration Required)

In this paper, Frost & Sullivan provides an overview of mobile messaging and mobile email. It discusses the impact of open source on mobile email and provides insight into the Funambol open source push email solution and why Funambol is poised to become a leader in mobile email for consumers.


Beyond BlackBerry and Windows Mobile: What Mass Market Consumers Want in Mobile Email

PDF File, 440KB (Registration Required)

This report details the results of a March, 2007 survey on the need and usage of mobile email among those that currently use mobile email and those that do not.


How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email and how Funambol Mobile Open Source Monetizes It

PDF File, 177KB (Registration Required)

This position paper discusses how Android stimulates the adoption of mobile email by the mass market and how Android and Funambol can transform this market. It also poses and answers major questions about the mobile industry for 2008 and beyond.


Funambol Data Synchronization Server Overview

PDF File, 88KB

This article provides an introduction to SyncML, its use, and integration of the Funambol Data Synchronization (DS) mobile application framework.


Funambol Connector Overview

PDF File, 72KB

This white paper provides an overview of Funambol connectors, their internals and how they work. This document describes two types of connectors supported by Funambol: zero footprint and outbound connection.


Funambol Data Synchronization Server Scalability

PDF File, 68KB

This document addresses the specifics of clustered load balancing for the Funambol Data Synchronization server to achieve scalability.


OMA Implementation Test Report: Funambol Device Management Server

PDF File, 252KB

This report cerifies the performance and results of the Funambol Device Management 1.2 Server at the 2006 OMA Testfest.


OMA Implementation Test Report: Funambol Data Synchronization Server

PDF File, 292KB

This report cerifies the performance and results of the Funambol Data Synchronization 1.2 Server at the 2006 OMA Testfest.


Why Wireless Email for Consumers is Set for Explosive Growth

PDF File, 147KB

Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., VP and Chief Analyst at Frost and Sullivan describes the market conditions that will cause mobile email for the masses to rapidly grow.