On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:40:16PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
My wife's Palm Treo has died (after bing dropped for the umpteenth time) so she needs a replacement.
The fundamental requirement is a phone which will synchronise contacts and calendar with Evolution or Thunderbird/Lightning.
So what's the best way to go nowadays?
We'd prefer direct phone <--> desktop synchonization but I suppose it's not absolutely vital. However I'm happy enough to install a sync server of some sort (though my experience with Funambol was not an entirely happy one when I was trying the same with my Nokia E71 a year or so ago).
These days all the cool kids sync with the cloud (e.g. with Android its Google). Is that an option for you?
Sort of, that's what I meant by "We'd prefer direct phone <--> desktop synchonization but I suppose it's not absolutely vital.
We defnitely *do* need it to be easy/transparent to keep Evolution (or Lightning) calendar in sync with phone calendar. If this goes via the cloud then so be it but the cloud bit will only be used as a sort of server.
So to have to explicitly synchronize Evolution <-> cloud and then separately synchronize phone <-> cloud is out. On the other hand it it can be made to just happen when changing things at either end then that's fine.
Something that *relies* on having an internet connection all the time to work is out as we are often out of reliable mobile phone network coverage. At home the mobile coverage is often flakey and when we're on the boat in France it may be non-existent at times.