[mdlug] Linux and cell phones?

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I use a Palm treo 700p with J-pilot on Fedora 7 with no issues.

Pat

On 10/17/07, Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The OS of the phone/device really doesn't matter so much so long as it
> > > supports SyncML;  I've actually had the best luck with syncing Windows
> > > Mobile Pocket PC devices.
> > This I will agree with.  I also had good luck with Nokia devices with
> > SyncML, but that was quite some time ago.
>
> There are lots of Funambol users who use various Nokia phones,  so I'd
> assume SyncML support in them is pretty pervasive.
>
> > Additionally, I do believe that the PalmOS enabled smartphones will
> > work with the pilot sync stuff in GNOME and Evolution.  I've never
> > directly used it, but I do recall a former co-worker doing that with his
> > Treo 650.
>
> Sort of;  it depends on the version(s) of the Palm OS databases and the
> version of pilot-link.  Palm (or whoever owns the software now) made
> some changes to the database format and some of the database names a
> couple of years ago.  I'm a Treo 650 owner and I've seen related
> compatibility problems.   Pilot Link (0.12?) was modified to work with
> the new formats but that caused a small change in the API so some
> applications puke.
>
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