[Monadlug] cell phone sync w/Linux?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

My Treo 650 syncs great.  I just bought it a little while ago (about 2 months) 
to replace my own Handspring VisorPhone Prism.  It's the first phone out 
since that one that I felt was an upgrade in functionality and it's great.  
It's Palm too, so synching is of course pretty darn well supported.  I use 
the Kontact/kdepim stuff, but the command-line tools and I'm sure the Gnome 
equivalent solutions will equally well support it.  

And it's much more durable than my last Visors were.  I went through 5 or 6 of 
them and the Treo 650 just suffered being thrown from a rather major car 
crash with only a few scrapes and such.  I know my old Visors broke at far 
less stress.
-N

On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:27 pm, Bill Sconce wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:01:18 -0400
>
> Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Lurker on the list speaks. ;-)
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the state of the things for cell phones that can sync
> > a phone/address data base w/Linux?
>
> B: Hello, Lurker-on-the-list!  Good to hear from you, Ty.
> B:
> B: Someone else will have to tell you "the state of things", since that's a
> B: pretty broad topic.  :)  I can help to the extent of one data point:
> B:
> B:     SOME cell phones can sync.  So you need not give up easily, anyway.
>
> > My old Handspring visor is getting a bit long in the tooth and I may be
> > looking at a cell phone update.  If I could get rid of one in the
> > process that would be a big win.  However, I'm not looking to spend a
> > fortune and I haven't used windows in years.
> >
> > I most often use my phone on the road in places where Verizon service
> > seems better than average and so would like an option that is available
> > w/Verizon service.
> >
> > The main requirements are:
> >
> > - Address and phone # database that can sync w/Linux
> > - Small and easy to carry
> > - Tri-mode (I _might_ be able to do w/out analog)
>
> B: My data point is the LG VX4400, which I've been using since it was
> B: early current production, a couple of years now at least.  I've
> B: checked for support of follow-on phones (i.e., the VX4500, which
> B: would be my likely candidate if I were to do an upgrade now), and
> B: it's supported too. I sync the database (and back it up, and edit it)
> B: on Linux.  And reset the wallpaper to not be a commercial for Verizon.
> B: And other good things.
> B:
> B: The package I use on Linux for it is BitPim,
> B:
> B:     http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/
> B:
> B: I haven't used Windows in years either.  So it was gratifying to
> B: find that someone was doing GPL'd work to support a cell phone which
> B: worked hereabouts.  (BitPim was a primary reason I got the VX4400.
> B: Another reason was that the VX4400 was tri-mode - a lot of the
> B: places where I need a cell phone (read: back-country airports)
> B: aren't covered by modern cell sites.
> B:
> B: (Nevertheless, like a lot of GPL packages these days, BitPim isn't
> B: restricted to Linux:  it runs on Macs and Microsoft PCs too.)
>
>
> HTH,
>
> -Bill
>
>
> P.S. A.  BitPim is written in (...surprise) Python.
>
> P.S. B.  (clipped from BitPim's Web site) - phones which BitPim
> supports:
>
>     * Audiovox CDM8900
>     * LG VX-3200
>     * LG VX-4400
>     * LG VX-4500
>     * LG VX-6000
>     * LG VX-6100
>     * LG VX-7000
>     * LG VX-8000
>     * [some] Samsung Phones
>     * [some] Sanyo Phones
>     * [some] other phones
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