On Fri, April 11, 2008 3:57 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > ramsesoriginal writes: > >> [snip] ... I am speaking about the synchronization between the phone >> and other devise, could it be PC, a MAC, another phone, or even just >> Google calendar. Which way of synchronization has been chose? Which >> standards? Are there some "branded" or at least "recommended" >> clients? _What_ can be synchronized: contacts? calendar? rss feeds? >> GPS data? files? > > I've synced anything I've wanted to (going to/from a linux box) using > 'rsync -auv'
I don't think ramsesoriginal was asking about syncing the filesystem which you would sync with rsync, but about synchronizing his address book (contacts) calendar etc. In general the solution is to use SyncML, which is an open standard for synchronization between phones, desktop computers, and internet sync servers. It can use a variety of transports including bluetooth and TCP/IP, and works by exchanging vCard files, for contacts, and similar vCal etc files for calendar events and the like. It should be fairly easy to port a sync client or server to Open Moko. I have done some experimenting with syncing my Nokia phone with my Linux desktop. The syncing part went fairly well, the problem was that Kontact would not play nice as a sync target, so I was only able to sync the contacts DB on my phone with a directory full of vCard files on my Linux box, rather than with my groupware client which is what I was really trying to achieve. Proper sync support is on the roadmap for the next version of Kontact, so everything should work properly fairly soon. I am eagerly awaiting the next Ubuntu release in order to give that a try. Another exciting possibly is that seeing as the OpenMoko phone is a full Linux computer it could be used as a Sync server, making it possible to sync with another cellphone without the need for a normal computer. If we could have that as a standard feature on the consumer version of the Freerunner it would be very cool. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community