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 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.
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).
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.
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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.