Calendar:Device Sync: Difference between revisions

(Can't use gamme, it's gpl. can't use commercial softare. iPod specific isn't good enough. No need for 3 announces of sync4j)
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* ''Most Symbian OS Series 60 and above, late-model Sony Ericsson, and (AFIACT) all >=2004 Motorola phones have SyncML support in one form or another. Some only via OTA (Over The Air, ie: HTTP), and some like the new Motorola Linux-based phones (a768i, a780) support it via OTA, USB and infrared. One benefit of SyncML support, as BenS noted, would be a large base of device support.
* ''Most Symbian OS Series 60 and above, late-model Sony Ericsson, and (AFIACT) all >=2004 Motorola phones have SyncML support in one form or another. Some only via OTA (Over The Air, ie: HTTP), and some like the new Motorola Linux-based phones (a768i, a780) support it via OTA, USB and infrared. One benefit of SyncML support, as BenS noted, would be a large base of device support.


* As stated above, the current version of Apples iSync (1.5 (v139)) is NOT syncML compatible. Hopefully the next version (shipping with Tiger) will be.
* As stated above, the current version of Apples iSync (2.1 (shipped with Tiger)) is NOT syncML compatible.  


* SyncML seems a good idea to me in general. Perhaps a generic SyncML support would be great, so conduit sync could be left to the end user. (Using, for example, the [http://www.sync4j.org/ sync4j] project mentioned above.
* SyncML seems a good idea to me in general. Perhaps a generic SyncML support would be great, so conduit sync could be left to the end user. (Using, for example, the [http://www.sync4j.org/ sync4j] project mentioned above.
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