[kdepim-users] Re: Looking for a "smartphone" that can cooperate with Kubuntu 10.10 together with Kontact.

[Markus Feilner]

Am Friday 28 January 2011 15:55:33 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 16:07, Markus Feilner <lists at feilner-it.net> wrote:
> > Well, one thing that works on almost every phone since the late 90ies is
> > not about syncing, but copying: Export adresses or dates via Vcard or
> > Ical Files to your phone. You can do that via Bluetooth or USB Mass
> > Storage, even WLAN will work. On most phones, the file extension will be
> > recognized, at least regarding Vcards. I once had a job where I had to
> > work with sugar CRM and pretty often had to add new contacts from the Web
> > UI to my phone. Luckily, Sugar had an "Export Vcard" option, and that
> > file I directed to my phone's USB Drive.
>
> The Nokias that I've had (Symbian and non-Symbian) don't know what to
> do with a vCard, neither did the wife's Samsungs (all non-Android).
> Neither did the Windows Mobile 2003, 2003SE, or 2005 PDA. In all cases
> one could install third-party software to handle single vCards, but
> nothing that would handle a vCard file of 400+ contacts.
>
> And even with third-party software, I would get bit by this bug which
> nobody felt was their responsibility to fix (KDE blamed Qt, Qt blames
> KDE. This is a common theme affecting other bugs as well):
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172764
>
> This one was another showstopper:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68350
>
> Note that both bugs are closed due to KAddressBook being rewritten. I
> do not know how the new KAddressBook fares, I had to abandon it as it
> did not support some critical missing features from the old codebase
> upon release, despite the fact that I filed them as bugs far before
> the release date.

That's really strange, it worked fine here with a Nokia 6230i, 6500 slide and 
a N900 - I don't remember the name of the Sony Ericsson, a red and 
rectangular one... Did you also try sending vcard files via bluetooth? 
The N900 (okay, that set a lot of bars higher...) could even export all the 
adressbook to a file or a directory, and if I remember right you could choose 
between v2.0 and v.3.0 - and successfully import that to both KDE 3 and 4's 
Kontact. At least here it worked.  :-)
As to the bugs, I seem to have been lucky... Such things never happened here, 
but I often worked with the enterprise-branch, perhaps some things were fixed 
there? 



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