SugarSync is an online storage solution for your iPhone, iPad and computer. With SugarSync, you can store files, photos, and music to the cloud and access from any of your devices and you can even be stream your music and play in the background while using other apps.

Have you ever been away from home or the office and realized you need a file that is on your computer? SugarSync puts ALL of your data from all of your computers right at your fingertips…anytime, anywhere from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. With SugarSync, it is dead simple to sync and share your files online, giving you easy access to everything directly from your mobile device. If you like Dropbox, MobileMe, or Carbonite, you’ll love SugarSync.

• Get anytime, anywhere access to all of your files, photos, and music
• Share any file via email, or copy and paste links to share with another app
• Backup photos/videos taken on your iPhone/iPad to your computers (without wires!)
• Stream your entire music collection, even while you use other apps
• Download files or entire folders for fast, offline viewing
• Share, move, and even delete files saved on your computers
• View photos from all of your computers (and easily save any to your iPhone/iPad)
• Edit documents locally (using a document editor), then sync it your computers

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SugarSync is available on the iPhone and iPad for free. A free account includes 5GB. Paid subscriptions are available for 30-250 GB and start at $4.99/mo.

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While the holy grail for grabbing files on the iPhone would probably still be Apple-made iDisk support (as rumored), there are other options out there. Microsoft's Live Mesh is supposedly going to be the very definition of cross-platform once they mange to get all of their clients done -- but file access for the iPhone is pretty much limited to the browser right now.

Add one more "Securely sync your files to a 3rd party server and then get them on your iPhone" option to the mix: Sugarsync. They have clients for Mac, PC, Windows Mobile (though that one isn't great), Symbian, and now: a Sugarsync client for the iPhone (App store link).

Although Sugarsync would like to say that their iPhone client supports pushing files to the iPhone, that's not quite the case. Your files are pushed from sync'ed folders to Sugarsync's cloud, waiting for you when you want to access them from your iPhone. Good enough, we say, since local file system access on the iPhone is still not really available.

Basically the only limitation here is the iPhone: it can view but not edit and it can only view a relatively small set of files, but that whole local file system bit. One nice bit: you can share any file on your Sugarsync cloud.

The service is $25 a year for 10 gigs, so it might be a viable option for those of you rocking a few computers and an iPhone yet hate MobileMe. For those of us who are shelling out for MobileMe already, it would be nice to think iPhone iDisk access won't be too long in coming.