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Syncing Nokia Phones – Alternatives to Outlook?

I am very close to dropping Outlook as my email client of choice for my institute mailbox. It is slow, incredibly disk-intensive and requires too much maintenance – the same problems I had with Lotus Notes during my time at IBM.

However, Outlook is a very important tool for me.

It is the only application (apart from Lotus Notes) that will sync contacts, tasks and events with my Nokia Series60 phone (the N73). I use this feature extensively – Outlook today holds my master calendar and contacts database.

There are a few hacks that sync Thunderbird’s contacts with Nokia’s phones, but none for calendar events and tasks.

Can you, dear reader, suggest a way out? Comment or drop me an email at rahul@rahulgaitonde.org.


January 12, 2008 ·  Post to Twitter ·  Email this ·  Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird ·  3 Comments


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  1. zoxcleb on January 19th, 2008 12:57 am

    have u looked into lightning, the calendar tool for thunderbird? there are some nifty hacks for that hidden away… i just found one which lets me sync with google calendar, and have thunderbird write to google calendar as well….

  2. toffe on August 12th, 2008 1:42 pm

    Lighting works great with GCal which you can also sync with your mobile. I recommend it.

    Do you know of any contact syncs apps between Symbian phones and Thunderbird?

  3. Rahul on August 14th, 2008 2:17 pm

    @zoxcleb:

    Have used Lightning in the past. Yes, it’s pretty nifty (and there are other solutions to sync calendars too). But what I’m looking at is phone < --> desktop synchronization. That seems out of reach yet.

    @toffe:

    I’m assuming you mean Symbian phones that are not from Nokia. The Noksync home page has a link to blueZync, a Linux application that says it can “Synchronize Bluetooth phone with Thunderbird”. Haven’t tried it out though.

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