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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:26:56 -0800 From: Marc MERLIN <marc_news@vasoftware.com> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Loading Emails in nokia phones (from a Palm) I didn't want to enter the phone numbers myself, so I wrote a perl script to send numbers to the phone via Email/pages, and one to extract the numbers from a palm dump and put them into the format used to upload them to the phone. We had a quick thread about the sending to the phone part, I cleaned that up, and added the missing piece: loading all the data from a Palm. In case this is useful to anyone: http://sourceforge.net/projects/palm2nokiavcard/ === Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:57:17 -0500 From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> To: Marc MERLIN <marc_news@vasoftware.com> Subject: [svlug] Re: Loading Emails in nokia phones (from a Palm) Marc MERLIN wrote: > I didn't want to enter the phone numbers myself, so I wrote a > perl script to send numbers to the phone via Email/pages, > and one to extract the numbers from a palm dump and put > them into the format used to upload them to the phone. This is why I waited until the first Palm-based cells hit the shelves before buying either. One device, no issues. I have the Kyrocera SmartPhone, although someone else is coming out with another one, Color Palm no less. Sometimes I forget that I can just "beam" my contact info and other goodies between other Palms, and then it's right in my phone, ready-to-use. But it still has a "flip over" with a real keypad (unlike that forthcoming Color Palm) and a "jog dial" on the side so I don't have to grab the stylus to just lookup someone, or take a voice memo. It's serial-based (with USB option) so syncing in Linux is not an issue. It also means it acts like a generic 14.4Kbaud external modem so it's 100% Linux compatible (as long as you have a serial port). === From: Alan Denney <yosemite@programmer.net> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: Loading Emails in nokia phones (from a Palm) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:08:07 -0800 On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:57:17 -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith = <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote: >Marc MERLIN wrote: >> I didn't want to enter the phone numbers myself, so I wrote a >> perl script to send numbers to the phone via Email/pages, >> and one to extract the numbers from a palm dump and put >> them into the format used to upload them to the phone. > >This is why I waited until the first Palm-based cells hit the shelves >before buying either. One device, no issues. I have the Kyrocera >SmartPhone, although someone else is coming out with another one, Color >Palm no less. The Samsung I300. It's out and VERY nice, but not worth $300 more to me than the Kyocera 6035 I just bought on closeout. >Sometimes I forget that I can just "beam" my contact info and other >goodies between other Palms, and then it's right in my phone, >ready-to-use. But it still has a "flip over" with a real keypad (unlike >that forthcoming Color Palm) and a "jog dial" on the side so I don't >have to grab the stylus to just lookup someone, or take a voice memo.=20 >It's serial-based (with USB option) so syncing in Linux is not an >issue. It also means it acts like a generic 14.4Kbaud external modem so >it's 100% Linux compatible (as long as you have a serial port). Have you actually used it on Linux? It claims to require Windows- specific dialer software (Dialer 3.0). It uses the phone's data mode which makes it unlike a regular cellular call. === Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:47:49 -0500 From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> To: Alan Denney <yosemite@programmer.net> Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: Loading Emails in nokia phones (from a Palm) Alan Denney wrote: > Have you actually used it on Linux? It claims to require Windows- > specific dialer software (Dialer 3.0). It uses the phone's data mode > which makes it unlike a regular cellular call. Really? That's not what my device has. Hmmm, maybe they changed it? === Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:47:42 -0800 From: Marc MERLIN <marc_news@vasoftware.com> To: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> Cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: Loading Emails in nokia phones (from a Palm) On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Marc MERLIN wrote: > > I didn't want to enter the phone numbers myself, so I wrote a > > perl script to send numbers to the phone via Email/pages, > > and one to extract the numbers from a palm dump and put > > them into the format used to upload them to the phone. > > This is why I waited until the first Palm-based cells hit the shelves > before buying either. One device, no issues. I have the Kyrocera I agree, the 8260 is a complete joke. No way to upload records, through IR or serial port. What were they thinking? That said, when you get one at work, and you have to use it... ===