Linux Lingam said on Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:07:34PM +0530,: > meanwhile, my next phone won't be a nokia, obviously.
Your choice; but really, look at the site again. WHile other manufacturers have lesser number of models, and Nokia does have its share of incompatible phones, in percentage terms, incompatible phones from Nokia are far less than the incompatible phones from other manufacturers. Nokia is at least trying to provide some support once a while. Others do not care. One manufacturer actually uses the Linux kernel and refuses to give out the code. > but no way in hell for me to transfer those contacts from evolution, > over bluetooth, to the phone. AFAIK, this phone has the Symbian OS. So, try your luck at symbian.org. Till then, try this jugaad, if you have the patience. 1. Find a SIM. (no problem with using your existing SIM). 2. Find a phone which works the way you want with the software you have. Call it phone X. 3. Put the SIM in Phone X, put in whatever the SIM takes into teh phone using evolution / wammu / gammu gnokii or whatever. 4. Put the loaded SIM in E611; move the contacts from the SIM to the phone... 5. Repeat the cycle as long as required. > anyone knows of a cloud-cover, where i could upload these contacts free, > and then from there download into the phone, perhaps using a > client-software in the mobile, > or by some sync-o-magic between the mobile and the cloud-interface? But hey, cannot you find a compatible Nokia device, sync that device, and do the sync between those devices rather than a PC <> E611 sync? > 01. does anyone know of an OCR-in-video software that works on the mobile, > so i could video-record on my mobile all my contacts in evolution scrolling > at full-speed, and then the software munches the video-clip to extract > the data and sort it into the mobile? Patent that please!!! > 03. is there a free text-to-speech software that could read out all > the 779 records in evolution which i could record using the > voice-recorder in the mobile, and then run a free software on the > mobile that handles speech-to-text on this recording, with a clever > script to save each field and record in its proper place? Ditto. Patent # 2. > 04. anybody has a large sledge-hammer so i could smash this mobile > and ubuntu-laptop into smithereens after i jot down all the > contact-details into a handmade-paper diary with an ink-pen? heh. My current phone is a Nokia. I have used LG, and 4 models & 7 Nos. of Samsung. There ahve been other Nokias in the family (2 models, 3 pieces). Over a period of time, support fo the Nokias improved, LG regressed, Samsung remains static. BTW, I am NOT giving nokia a clean chit. music.nokia.* is a candidate for our Hall of Shame. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. --William Penn _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
