On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> > Bought myself a Nokia 5800 (yes, it's the XpressMusic series) phone
> > recently and was trying to get it to play nice with Debian. 
> > Finally managed to backup contact information from the phone into a
> > directory, and did a little HOWTO on it for posterity.  Feedback
> > welcome.
> >
> > http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/SynchroniseNokia5
> >800Linux
> 
> Great. I have the same phone and look forward to trying it out.

Let us know how you fare :)

> BTW, you have written:
> "No ODF (OpenOffice.org) or OOXML (MS-Office) document reader."
> 
> Document reader reads ODF files. It is available at:
> 
> http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing-Text-Tools/Document
> -Viewer/Office-Reader-73432.shtml
> 
> I have installed the version meant for S60 3rd edition phones on 5800
> and it works just fine.

Cool, thanks for the update.  I'll install that and check things out.  
For MS documents I can always convert them to ODF on the desktop before 
transferring them to be viewed on the phone.

> I don't think Document Reader is open source. Oddly, the website
>  says, "License/Price: Freeware/FREE".

Probably free as in beer, not free as in speech.  Will have to look when 
I have some time.

Regards,

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