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Menstral is a menstrual calendar (also called called cycle or ovulation calendar) application I wrote one year ago.

Menstral 1.9.0, released today, adds an interesting new feature that I’ve called SMS Transfer: it allows you to send your calendar data, through SMS, from one Menstral instance to another Menstral instance running on a different phone.

This is useful for the users who change/upgrade their mobiles, as they expect to be able to continue using the applications from their old mobile on the new one (this expectance includes the continuity of the persistent RMS data).

I wonder what other mobile applications out there are using the SMS Transfer. I’d suspect this technique will become more popular as the developers realize that they have to catter for their users’ habit of periodically switching mobiles.

And one more prediction from my foreseeing bag:
The young(ish) mobile users will grow out of the pictures/ringtones through MMS thing (which never really took off anyway), as soon as they’ll discover they can now send menstrual calendars through SMS.. wow!

(On the same funny line, a surprising observation is that a significant part (perhaps more than a half) of Menstral’s users are Men!)

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