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Cell Phone Sync Notes

Initially about KDE & The Sony Ericsson W600i. 

Background

I had a Nokia "Matrix" phone (7160) for several years; &, for me, it seemed the perfect balance of phone & PDA.  Unfortunately, it has died -- it will no longer stay on for any reasonable length of time.  After a wildly variable time, anything from 2 sec. to over an hour, it spontaneously shuts down.. 

At the time of its demise, it had over 100 people in its address book, & most of them had more than 1 phone number.  In addition, there were/are a bunch of birthdays & other recurring reminders.  Transcribing by hand would have been a bitch.  Fortunately, the 7160 has IR. 

In order to get a new phone, we had to switch to GSM & accept a new rate plan.  Early in March (2006) we took the plunge, switching plans & getting new, GSM, phones:  a Nokia 6102 (for her) & a Sony Ericsson W600i (for me). 
We did not (maybe we should have) deliberately get phones from the same mfr. 
There is a school of thought that says all phones in the family should use the same accessories, including the batteries. 

The Sony Ericsson W600i

The Sony Ericsson W600i has many features that I like & many that I don't like.  However, this page is about sync'ing it to KDE Kontact(?).  For this purpose only its memory size & its connectivity matter: 

  • It has 256 MB, a fairly large memory for a phone.  Manual transcription is out. 
  • Connectivity: 
    • USB. 
    • IR. 
    • Bluetooth. 
    • No WiFi (802.11 anything). 

USB

If I were willing to run Winders™, or even Gnome, USB might be the way to go:  The phone comes w/ a CD of Winders™ software & there is at least one report of sync'ing it through the USB cable to Evolution in Gnome using Multisync.  Note:  Even running M$, the provided software will only sync to: 
  • Windows Address Book (WAB) -- i.e. "Outbreak Express". 
  • 3 flavors of Lotus Notes (still on my s*** list for the copy protection schemes of the 80's). 
  • 3 flavors of "Outbreak" itself. 
Pretty slim pickins.  .  .  . 

IR

Having IR on both the old & the new phone was crucial to saving the old address book. 
However, I have no modern, working IR dongle; so IR is out of the question for sync'ing to the computer.  Besides, there are exceedingly the short range & the alignment issues.  .  .  .  . 

Bluetooth

Bluetooth seems to be the best candidate for a number of reasons --
  • Modern
  • Flexible
  • Well defined
  • Robust
  • Capable
  • One of Sony Ericsson's said it is the best candidate. 

This is the one I am pursuing.  ("Spoiler":  I think it's going to work.)  .  .  . 

WiFi

Can't use what you don't have, but a good reason not to keep this phone. 


USB Sync

Platforms

  1. SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2
  2. Knoppix (DVD) 5 ?2006-02-25
  3. (Briefly) Ubuntu 5.04 Live
  4. SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2
  5. (soon) SimplyMEPIS 3.4....

USB Dongle

HP   bt450  Q6398A
In what what unfortunately is an all-too-often occurrance with HP, I was not able to find any docs of any kind for this item on their web site.  So I could not download any software & therefore could not test it on my girl friend's 2k box. 

Cell Phone

Sony Ericsson W600i.  (Just a reminder :-) ).  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 
-- RickArchibald - 19 Mar 2006

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