Re: [Opensync-users] One-way sync (WAS: Advice on a cell phone purchase?)

[Emanoil K. <del...@ya...>]

Hi, Dotan, thanks for posting,
first of all I tried to change the reply style, so I
hope it's OK for all of you now, sorry, not my fault.

--- Dotan Cohen <dot...@gm...> wrote:

> 2008/6/5 Emanoil Kotsev <del...@ya...>:
> > The hole discussion is making me some kind of sad,
> because I was used to
> > sync without problems with my Palm III and Siemens
> S55 few years ago and was
> > thinking that things getting better.
> > In fact it's a nightmare to get a simple thing
> done.
> > Hopefully in future it will change
> >
> 
> In my opinion things are getting better with
> opensync, however, the
> hardware manufacturers change their sync specs with
> every new phone.

That's really the problem. I was thinking if we can
force them to post the specs in advance, so that we
may cope. At least hear in Europe it could be done,
because honestly I feel my rights hurt if I'm buying a
phone and have to buy a OS (mostlly bundled to
hardware) to sync it.
I also beleive that the manufacturers will cooperate
(and why not?)

> Hopefully SyncML will solve this. Write to Nokia,
> Motorola, Siemans,
> LG, and the other phone manufacturers and let them
> know that Linux
> users want to purchase their phones and sync them as
> well. If we don't
> let them know that we exist, then they will not help
> us.
> 

Is there a discussion about a petition or some kind of
act. Or who is doing syncml and who not and why not? I
think the companies need a regulation, so that if they
don't want to follow a standard (because greede) they
have to be forced to give the specs what they are
really doing or provide proprietary driver.

> If you cannot find the addresses for the cellphone
> manufacturers, then
> write to me and I will find them for you. I write to
> one company
> (hardware or software) a week requesting Linux
> support, and you would
> be surprised at how willing hardware manufacturers
> would be to provide
> support when they see that people want it.

not quite sure if you ironically mean it. I have +/-
experience regarding support. Mostly they say. Yeah,
sure it's good to have but linux is not primary target
because it's small market and we are planing support
in future.
But surprisingly as you say there are more and more
that see the potential and really provide help.

Also as I am really thinking to check if I can not
file a questioning about the legal possibility to file
a case in the EU commission for human rights and for
competition. I mean if the EU can vote for rights of
mice and chicken ... they should be able to push the
money makers to give us at least technical specs
needed to build a sync program in one month or so
after the phones are out, or even better to support
the developers to bring drivers together with phones.

But enough politics.

The 0.22 version is much better than 0.19 but is
absolutely unusable (at least for me).

The question now is how to sync one way as you do,
or/and how to sync outlook with kde?

Do you have a suitable howto in mind?

thanks in advance and thanks to all

regards