Sun 30 Sep 2007
Contacts synchronization is always one of the hottest topic in the mobile device. There are basically two ways of doing contacts synchronization, i.e.
- Offline; meaning you don’t need Internet connection to do synchronization.
- Online; meaning your contacts are backup to an online server.
Offline
- Microsoft Outlook. I am pretty sure that many of you have been using PC Suite to synchronize your contacts to Microsoft Outlook. The latest PC Suite even supports synchronization to Windows Vista contacts.
- Apple’s Mac. Mac users may also be familiar with iSync. Personally I’ve never tried iSync yet because I don’t have Mac. However, I heard that this product is awesome; just like any other Apple’s products.
- Mozilla Thunderbird. There were some discussions about contacts synchronization to Mozilla Thunderbird. Until today, I haven’t managed to synchronize between S60 devices and Thunderbird. There is a product, called NokSync to synchronize Nokia phones. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with S60 devices.
Online
Online backup for contacts is getting increasingly more popular these days. There are many companies out there that are providing online backup service. My favorite online backup services are:
Plaxo uses proprietary protocol for synchronization; while the other two, Zyb and Mobilcal, supports SyncML. For those who are not familiar with SyncML, it is a platform independent information synchronization standard from OMA (Open Mobile Alliance).
I am going to discuss online backup in the next postings. So… stay tune…
Bonus Links
- Contacts Synchronization with Plaxo
- Anything About Synchronization
- It is getting easier to sync your cell phone with Linux box
Update (01-Oct-2007): Added some bonus links.
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October 1st, 2007 at 10:28 am
Hi, just read this post.
Great list of options, and just for helping the linux users too, I just finished writing this one: http://mobile.urubatan.info/2007/10/it-is-getting-easier-to-sync-your-cell.html
I started yesterday with the screenshots
With this step by step you can sync any SyncML enabled phone (mine is a N80) with Kontact in KDE (I’ll test the procedure with Evolution on gnome).
PS.: thanks for the links.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
@Rodrigo: Thanks for the link. I’ve added your posting to my posting.
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
Thank you for the great blog, I always use your blog as a reference when I need to do any thing with my N80
December 13th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for post. Just want to add link to recently launched http://www.bloove.com where you can manage your Nokia (contacts and sms) via web. LDAP support is coming soon.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:57 am
how to contacts backup n6600 into pc
February 16th, 2008 at 8:22 am
@sanjay: You can use PC Suite for Nokia 6600 (http://europe.nokia.com/A4143896?applicationId=274&prodSupAppID=1&productId=288&categoryId=19&languageId=1)