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

[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.


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Dotan Cohen

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