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Tools for your phone: Wammu and OpenSync

by Clair on October 11th, 2007

I was looking for tools to use to sync my phone with Linux. As of now, I am trying to install Gutsy Gibbon (not yet the official release, of course) so I just searched. Someone recommended OpenSync and I found Wammu in the repositories.

Wammu
Features include:

• complete support (can read/edit/delete/copy) for contacts, todo, calendar
• can read/create/save/send/backup smses
• sending files to phone (OBEX and Sony Ericsson phones only)
• sms composer for multi part smses (currently only text and predefined bitmap/sound can be edited)
• display message including pictures and ringtones playback
• support for backup and import in various formats (vCard, vCalendar, vTodo, iCalendar, gammu own backup,…)
• export messages to mail (IMAP4, maildir and mailbox storages are supported)
• searching for phone
• translated into several languages
• rated as best on many software servers

I checked out the screenshots and they look nice. I am actually excited to try it out and see how easily I could do things on it.

OpenSync
I just got a warning that I’d have to compile OpenSync if I want to use it. But one of our sys ads might package it for Gutsy users in the office. This isn’t as feature-packed as Wammu but contacts and calendars could be synced. :D Those are the really critical information in phones, of course.

I should try installing at least one of these when I am done installing Gutsy on my laptop.

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