I have recently bought a Nokia E71 smartphone, mainly for its full keyboard and built in GPS, I'm looking for ways to connect it to my Linux box.
Getting the data across isn't actually too difficult, I have it working with Funambol already but my problem is that there doesn't seem to be a simple and straightforward desktop (or web) application that lets me access (and edit) my contacts and calendar.
It *feels* like Linux is going the Windows way of humungeous applications that do everything. There are lots of "groupware" applications that will talk to Funambol but they're all huge with web site maintenance, E-Mail and lots of other things that I most definitely don't want (as part of my PIM anyway).
There seem to be no simple desktop PIMs that will talk to Funambol.
The nearest things to what I want are Evolution (which needs some faffing about to get it to work, it's not "out of the box) and the Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning calendars (but what do I do about contacts?).
The demo application that comes with Funambol just about works but it is a *bit* clunky, however it's about the nearest to what I want.
Does anyone have any better suggestions for this whole thing? As it is it seems to me that Funambol is a bit OTT, there's about 200Mb of it!
All I really want is a PIM that will talk SyncMl direct to my Nokia, I don't really need a server (Funambol) that allows me to synchronise with Outlook, Groupware systems, and everything else as well as my Nokia.
I think you have already pretty much answered your own question, The E71 being a series 60 phone should play with opensync which in itself plays with Evolution.
Nothing is out of the box (not even reliable sync with a Windows client) But a quick glance over some instructions Google gave me shows that it is a matter of installing a handful of packages and setting up the bluetooth pairing. On a sane disto it looks like it should take less time than it took me to write this reply.
http://www.wahlau.org/series_60_3rd_edition_nokia_n73_synchronization_with_o...
I run a series 60 phone as well. However I have never tried this as mine syncs over GPRS to Exchange 2003 (yeh boo hiss..but it works) which gives me live mail,tasks,contacts and calendar. Oh and a remote wipe the phone and lock it button for when it gets lost.
However it would still be interesting to hear how this works out.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:36:56PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I think you have already pretty much answered your own question, The E71 being a series 60 phone should play with opensync which in itself plays with Evolution.
I actually have it working with Evolution now, I went back to SyncEvolution and genesis, installed a couple more python modules and it 'just worked'! :-)
I'm not sure that I'm absolutely in love with evolution but it'll do.
Nothing is out of the box (not even reliable sync with a Windows client) But a quick glance over some instructions Google gave me shows that it is a matter of installing a handful of packages and setting up the bluetooth pairing. On a sane disto it looks like it should take less time than it took me to write this reply.
http://www.wahlau.org/series_60_3rd_edition_nokia_n73_synchronization_with_o...
I'm using WiFi to connect rather than Bluetooth, rather easier (for me anyway). I didn't have to edit any XML files either! :-) The messy bit was getting SyncEvolution and genesis installed, had to compile SyncEvolution and find some elusive python modules.
I run a series 60 phone as well. However I have never tried this as mine syncs over GPRS to Exchange 2003 (yeh boo hiss..but it works) which gives me live mail,tasks,contacts and calendar. Oh and a remote wipe the phone and lock it button for when it gets lost.
However it would still be interesting to hear how this works out.
It seems pretty reliable and solid now I have all the right bits built. It should work over GPRS too though I don't propose to do that too often as it will cost money.
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 23:46 +0100, Chris G wrote:
It seems pretty reliable and solid now I have all the right bits built. It should work over GPRS too though I don't propose to do that too often as it will cost money.
Probably less than you expect. I run my mail in push mode and everything else gets updated every 15 minutes in working hours and hourly out of hours. That I think works out to about £5 worth of data a month (if I actually paid for it however it is within what I get free on my contract)
That is with it set up to only get attachments or whole messages over a size limit on demand. If you were only syncing PIM data then unless you have a frantically busy calendar I would expect to be very little traffic at all as your data spends most of the day pretty much static.
However of course, roaming sync of your PIM data only makes sense if you have other people looking at/adding to your calendar/task list as I do.
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:08:35AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 23:46 +0100, Chris G wrote:
It seems pretty reliable and solid now I have all the right bits built. It should work over GPRS too though I don't propose to do that too often as it will cost money.
Probably less than you expect. I run my mail in push mode and everything else gets updated every 15 minutes in working hours and hourly out of hours. That I think works out to about £5 worth of data a month (if I actually paid for it however it is within what I get free on my contract)
That's still almost as much as my *annual* spend on mobile phone calls! :-) I use pay-as-you-go for this very reason, I just don't have a need (or desire) for tlking to people on the go, the only time I use my mobile to make calls is if I get stuck somewhere or I'm going to be seriously late.
That is with it set up to only get attachments or whole messages over a size limit on demand. If you were only syncing PIM data then unless you have a frantically busy calendar I would expect to be very little traffic at all as your data spends most of the day pretty much static.
Yes, I may well do the *occasional* sync via GPRS if I need to get a 'new' address I've entered at home for example.
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