Re: Motorola phones

Chris Cleeland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 21, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Roger Binns wrote:

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> Chris Cleeland wrote:
>> I, too, just got a RAZR, though it's on Sprint.  Since I can sync it
>> using iSync,
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> Incidentally just how well can you sync?  I played with doing OBEX  
> over
> Bluetooth and the phone is really crap.  For example contacts are
> transferred using Vcards, but the phone doesn't follow the standard.

Well, I found a hacked-in plugin for isync and dropped it in, and  
isync "just worked."  I can also transfer ringtones and images back  
and forth using OBEX bluetooth transfer just fine.

>   It
> chokes on the 'FN' field and has no understanding of categories.  You
> can't control things like speeddial.
I don't know about the speeddial and FN stuff; I'll have to check.   
It did things sufficiently for my purposes, although I'd anticipated  
that the transfer from one phone to another would be "lossy".

> The AT command based control is better but needs to know the RAZR
> specific dialect.
I had no technical input on this one, so I don't know.
> having to distinguish
> between CDMA and GSM variants that led to the code reorganization :-)
Ahhh...okay.

Well, I'm not very motivated to do changes b/c, at least at this  
point, I can do most everything I need to do using isync.



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