Originally Posted by NokTokDaddy

Well, I don't see why they should give us something for nothing indefinately...

Hi, you are receiving this email because you have a recently active NuevaSync free service account.
We are discontinuing our original free service. Please read below for more details.

NuevaSync's free service was launched in 2007 as an invitation-only site to be used to demonstrate, test and debug our synchronization software. Beginning in 2008 with the iPhone 2.0 update, the service became popular with many smart phone users for their day-to-day syncing. At the time we decided, due to the fact that development wasn't yet finished, that it was not practical to commercialize the service. However, the NuevaSync investors were persuaded to fund the service's continued operation while we worked to finish developing the software. Over the past two years we have worked hard to keep the service running reliably, fix bugs, add features, and we have also learned a great deal about what it takes to deliver great sync service. We've learned that to provide a really good service, we need to offer technical support; the ability to investigate and diagnose sync problems retrospectively; and tools that allow users to check on their devices' sync activity. Now that our software is complete and fully debugged, and we finally have the resources to provide supported service to all our users, we have decided to no longer offer the unsupported free service.

Existing free service users such as yourself have the option to upgrade to our new $15/year basic subscription level.
Basic service includes all the features previously available with your free service plus the following:
Technical support
Remote wipe
Contacts capture
Sync tasks from Toodledo or 37Signals Highrise to compatible devices
Calendar event categories for Windows Mobile devices
We will also shortly add the ability to select which Google contact groups sync to the phone.
More details on our basic and premium services can be found on our web site.

We are using our free trial process (which is normally for new users) to handle the end of free service.
This will work as follows: Your account has been enrolled in the Basic service free trial. The trial period lasts 5 days.
If you would like to subscribe, please log into our control panel web site and click the 'buy' link at the top of the main page.
One or two reminder emails will follow as part of the trial flow.

For those who prefer not to subscribe no action is necessary (except to ensure that any devices you have connecting to the service are appropriately re-configured). This is because at the end of the trial period non-subscribed accounts will be disabled for device syncing but it will still be possible to log in to the control panel site. We hope you have been happy with the service we've delivered in the past and we thank you for choosing to sync your phone with NuevaSync.

Originally Posted by Maerkus

@ oved_etzot: What do you mean with shell as alternative?