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.

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...

:-(