Can any current mobile phone sync addressbook and calendar with linux ?
Hello,
choosing a new mobile phone is a very nasty think, because no matter how hard you look, at best you end up with a phone where you can download the photos and maybe if you're lucky backup the phone book. More usually, you won't be able to do that much, and need to keep a M$ Win partition just for that. Then you have your stuff synced with a M$ Outlook that you don't use, hooray. Can anyone please recommend a phone (which is currently in the stores ;-) where I can - using Linux - download the pictures - backup/restore phone book; also restore link between phonebook/caller ids and associated caller photos - better: backup/restore the complete phone - sync calendar entries in and out - maybe connect via bluetooth rather than some cable. Cheers, Tom. |
Almost all of them. Look at multisync for phone book and calendar. Obexftp + obexfs for file transfer. Both work via USB data cable, IrDA and Bluetooth.
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Interesting. Have you setup / seen this running yourself ?
I was having the impression that SyncML would not work locally or via Bluetooth, and I was not looking for a way to sync via a GSM connection ;-) I have a Motorola V600 right now and had given up hope of a Bluetooth SyncML connection after many hours of surfing... Anyway, any specific recommendations for or experience with a current Motorola, SonyEricson or Siemens Phone ? |
PS: and obex on Moto V600 only allowed/allows to access photos, ringtones and video, no way to access or
backup the whole phone itself. That requires a payware on windows again... |
There seems to be some kind of stigma with this topic.
Everybody seems to officially agree that "everything works and there is no problem" but I've never heard/seen anybody giving details or news about that; let along having met anybody in person that has something like this working... :-( |
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