Re: Susteen Cable Information

> Actually, I was saying that I like the idea of having multiple 
> phonebooks for the various phones, each independent of the other.  For 
> example, one household may have three phones:  Mom, Dad, and Junior.  
> Mom and Dad have the same type of phone (say Model A), whereas Junior 
> has a different one (Model B). 

BitPim was explicitly designed to support this kind of operation.
There isn't any model specific data storage.  The code for each
model is supposed to make the best effort possible against
the data and especially ensure that data survives round trips.
Data entries have serials information associated with them
tied to the unique id of each phone.  That way the same entries
can be located on each phone, but the data can also be shared.
There is a list of serials so that multiple phones can be
associated with the entry.

There are two expected modes of use based on your scenario
above.  If no data should be shared at all, then the multi-user
capabilities of the operating system should be used.

  http://bitpim.org/testhelp/howto-multipleusers.htm

The normal expectation is that some data will be shared.  For
example they may want contact information for family members
on all phones, but his and her business contacts restricted to
their own phones.  This should be achieved using categories
with various categories automatically added to contacts coming
off phones and selected ones chosen to go back on.

The categories "filtering" hasn't been implemented at all yet.
However the foundation is there for phonebook and calendar.  For
ringtones and images things are a lot more difficult.  It is 
theoretically possible to identify similar images, keep them
together and then pick the best sized/format for the phone
currently being synced.

Roger


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