Thread: The N800 _MUST_ have a good PIM to succeed
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2007-02-21 , 01:43
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
That would be very nice, but we (well, "I" obviously, and maybe a few others) still would like a way to access, edit and synch our PIM on the IT, seeing as it has the better screen and (marginally) better text entry. And when I say "our PIM", the implication is that not everybody has or wants to have a Nokia phone, so if that's Nokia's vision, they can blooming well come up with a way to link the IT to any phone's PIM in existence, or they stand to lose a lot of street cred with the Open Source crowd. The sort of vendor tie-in that you imply is not frownlessly looked upon in the Linuxverse.
What he^ said...

This convergence is a natural IMHO. I accept the fact that I need to carry a large screen data device 50% of the time and a smaller personal communication device (phone) 100% of the time.
The phone could loose all the power robbing "smart" apps that are downright silly to edit on a 2 or even 3 inch, non touch screen. It should provide the data connection though, and the only smarts it needs is managing that connection among devices and providing viewers for the synced apps.

However, the data device must support all phones that are capable of this or the manufacturer at least should have an active interest in doing so.

If not, as I think Karel sort of said... Nokia would be looked upon as steering this open source device toward a vendor specific convergence...

That would be the kind of thinking I would expect out of Redmond; not from the company that sold me on this thing (N800).

I bought it for its potential and because it was Nokia, not an unheard of start-up, or a company that has already tried steering me down many a bumpy road.
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