Some bits and pieces about my current phone. A Nokia E71, which succeeded the Palm Pilots and Siemens I had before.
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Data transfer from Palm
There is no native sync app for Linux, maybe SyncML enabled applications might work. The Nokia can sync with Google Calendar though, so I decided to move all my contacts and Calendar entries there.
Export as iCal and vCards from jPilot worked with some minor glitches (disagreements about which data fields are which). Import into Google Calendar worked ok despite some strange errors messages after import.
Contacts could also be synced with Xing-exported vCards -very nice.
Almost everything ended up in my E 71 after installing and configuring MailForExchange 3.0 (see glitches and hiccups below).
Python for Symbian
Well, at least a serious reason to consider the evil company from Finland:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193112
Usefull apps
The E71 comes with a pretty complete set of business-oriented apps, but some things are missing:
ScreenSnap | |
| Capture screenshots of your phone. | |
EnergyPro | |
| Watch energy consumption over time. | |
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| DB booking and scheduling info. | |
Birthdays | |
| Manage birthday reminders (written in Python). | |
Profile Scheduler | |
| Automatically switch profiles based on day and time. | |
Google Maps | |
| -if you don't want OVI Maps (although it is free and comes with free turn-by-turn-navigation for the E71). | |
Pocket Protector | |
| Encrypt sensitive information. Open source. If you need additional security on top of the built-in encryption of the phone memory and smartcard. |
Issues
Google sync
The HowTo on the Google sync page is not up to date. Mailsync does not work with MailForExchange, Tasks can't be synced and the Google Calendar does not sync the overlay calenders (just the primary one). The Google Calendar app from Google is slightly sucky, so no option either.
Memory card
Had some memory card issues with the phone "forgetting" the card, which led to nice hickups with apps, who had their data or config installed on that card. Can be fixed by powercycling.
Installer issues
Apparently there where broken files from a failed install, which led to strange errors about failed installation on boot. This can be solved by deleting files from a hidden directory in "private/10202dce" (after you mount the phone as a mass storage device).
