On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:08:33AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Chris G wrote:
It can be done, I have had my Nokia E71 synchronized with Evolution via the Funambol server at ScheduleWorld.
I've never been a big fan of synchronisation, since usually that's not what I want. Synchronising contacts and calendar may be useful but the biggest issues I have are in archiving phone content to my PC to free up my phone's memory.
Specifically, the reason the N82 is slow is because I don't delete the majority of my text messages, and currently have several thousand stored on the phone from the past few years (some migrated from earlier phones). Ideally that archive would be on my PC not my phone, but even with Windows I've never found a good way to do this, and the nature of the protocols involved seem to make it very difficult for FOSS alternatives to get access to the content. (What I would love is an IMAP server application for the phone which makes messages available as IMAP folders that I can access from my PC and move to local storage as required.)
The other thing I use the phone for a lot is as a camera (which is why I'm looking at the phones I mentioned). So getting photos and video off the phone onto the PC easily is the other requirement. Just plugging the phone in via USB makes the N82 available as a USB drive, but for some reason only the internal memory is accessible this way - all the content is on the memory card which I can't access. So I have to take the memory card out of the phone and use a card reader to access the content.
I *think* the memory card on my Nokia E71 does appear as a USB drive, I'll have a play.
I figure what I am looking for is two things: (a) a manufacturer who is open enough to not try to stop anyone accessing their own data on their own phone except by using the manufacturer's applications which only do what they want and only on platforms they support, and (b) a sufficiently popular phone platform that there is FOSS software out there which takes advantage of (a).
What OS does Samsung use? That's really what decides whether it's easy to connect to Linux or not.
Not sure. It isn't Windows mobile, that I do know.
The N82 is Symbian based.
Like all Nokia, at least for the past few years.