Showing posts with label Nokia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nokia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Windows Mobile - I'd forgotten how difficult it could be!

Picked up a cheapish Windows Smartphone on ebay to use at work as I want to sync it with Outlook. I want a password manager for it but have spent 2 hours failing to get one. I've trawled through dozens of sites, downloaded applications that said they were compatible with my phone but the phone disagreed, tried to download open source apps only to run up against the "please sign up so we can spam you for all eternity" scum-suckers, found pages that are sorry that they're temporarily unavailable "please come back later" and fought with the slow and unreliable (over Wi-Fi FFS!) Mobile Internet Explorer.

No success :-(

I have a password manager on my own mobile - Nokia, Symbian S60. I have one on the 10 year old Sony Ericsson T610 I have been using. Both free, both work, both downloaded and installed in minutes. I could have any number of suitable apps for iPhone/iTouch. Not, it seems for Windows Mobile Smartphone. Unless I want to shell out $$$ for something over the top that's not guaranteed to work anyway.

Roll on the day BT sees the light, embraces Open Source (instead of just talking about it) and kicks Outlook/Windows into touch. Then I can use a proper phone again. It'll never happen though :-(

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

At last! Nokia to Google Calendar sync

At last! Nokia phone to Google Calendar synchronization that actually seems to work!

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After trying various freeware/shareware programs which never seemed to get out of beta and screwed with the phone or Google calendars in varied and "interesting" ways I may finally have found a worker.

It actually seems to work well enough that I'd be willing to pay for it. And I never buy software if I can find something Open Source to do the job!

Currently using 7 day trial on Nokia 6124.