What about the 6210?
It is also a great device, comes with built in modem, IR (I still wait for the appropriate IR modem driver for the Newt),
is big enough for my fingers to find the buttons, has plenty of internal memory...
You know the little application Nokia Names from Daniel Padilla? It works great via IR, but only in one direction.
For me the more important direction would be from Newt to phone, because my Newt is my data master, also with regard to the PC.
There are already nice PC applications to connect your Nokia to the PC (via serial or IR), enter names, phone numbers, ring tones, icons and last but not least to backup your phonebook on the PC. But of course there is no link to any other PC application which deals with addresses and dates.
I am also very happy with the NewtSMS Application from Stefan Auweiler (DE). It makes it very handy to edit SMS on the Newt, transfer them to the phone (via serial cable) and send them off (also as Flash SMS if the phone supports this feature). You can also transfer SMS messages from the phone to the Newt. The only thing still needed is the IR connectivity...
So I think the bigger interest would be to make the Newt able to talk IR COM, to make the Newt able to talk with (not only) Nokia phones IR and of course the transfer of names and phone numbers stored in the Newt into the phone.
Johannes
-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Rehorst [SMTP:victor_at_newtontalk.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:02 PM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: [NTLK] Nokia <-> Newton Names/Number sync?
BK said:
> > I tell you one thing. I prefer my GSM Nokia 8110 over any Japanese phone
> > anytime and so does my Japanese wife who has her own 8110 for when we
> > are travelling abroad ...
>
Then On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Oliver Brose wrote:
> Good choice ;) I have used that phone for two years, excellent device,
> tough, took a lot, never failed, and a design-classic as well. I loved it.
> It's a phone, and it doesn't claim to be anything else. SMS & data with the
> 8110i, that's it. Does its job very well.
Ah. More Nokia fans. Excellent :) I've had a 51x0 for over a year now
(first a 5160i, on Rogers/AT&T TDMA, and now a 5190, on Fido N.American
GSM) and it's such a great, solid phone. Basic, yes, but rock-solid, a
great menu system IMHO, and I haven't broken it yet :)
Bringing this back on topic... I've been thinking for a while now about
possibly writing a Nokia <-> Newton sync program for names and phone
numbers (For Windows). The phone side would use Gnokii
(http://www.gnokii.org) for comms with the phone, so as Gnokii support
grows, so would support for this sync. Of course, you'd have to have
either an IrDA port on your PC, or a serial port with the correct data
cable, and then a serial connection to the Newton (probably using Sloup
on the Newton side, since this is what I've worked with closely).
Other than this minor point about connections, this project seems very
feasible. I just always wondered if there was interest... so is there
any?
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