Syncing Nokia Phones – Alternatives to Outlook?

Posted on January 12, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

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.

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  • http://zoxcleb-returns.blogspot.com zoxcleb

    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….

  • toffe

    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?

  • http://www.rahulgaitonde.org Rahul

    @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.