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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I've never ever 'synced' a phone with anything. ... What am I missing? Well as I said I mostly want easy backup and restore. I use to download contacts to my Nokia Communicator from my Intranet based address book - but then I had a lot of contacts with a lot of details to track, and needed them the same at the home Office. > My phone *is* my calendar & diary - I don't seem to have a use for a > desktop equivalent. Importing a list of email contacts might be nice, > but actually I rarely use the phone like that, preferring to use putty > to a server and run pine... > > Maybe it's just me though... Nah I worked that way with the Nokia as far as Calendar was concerned. > My next phone will be a Nokia N900. I'd have one on order now if I'd not > bought something else last month (dive computer)... They're £500 > sim-free though which I suspect doesn't tick any boxes for you. Maemo and Android intrigue me, largely why I asked here. Of the Android one the HTC Hero already seems to have generated its own set of fans. Although the ratings aren't all stellar. I'm almost sold on the T-Mobile Pulse. I could very much live with Google Calendar, as I use it for the odd personal reminder already. But I feel it hard to get a feel for these phones, as the review said the IMAP mail client was okay. I'd need to play...... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html