Thread: HOWTO: Syncevolution with N900
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2010-01-27 , 22:53
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Originally Posted by tarek View Post
I find the N900's compatibility with GNU/Linux to be just fine..
Sorry, but I can't agree. Maybe I'm a bit naive, but when I decided to buy this Nokia N900 I bought it because I thought it was a real Linux smart-phone. Please let me explain:
My girlfriend got an iPhone as a gift. First she was quite happy about it, but then we found out, that without iTunes it is nothing more than a nice looking mobile phone. Since we have no Windows PC or Mac and since there is no iTunes for Linux this iPhone is of no use for her.

When I heard about the N900 I could not image, that there would be any compatibility issue with our Linux boxes. And I really thought syncing with a pc is a basic feature any modern phone would support.

Originally Posted by tarek View Post
I suspect one of the issues you're having is that there is little developer interest in the exact thing you're trying to do, though you can always commit to what you want by donating to the developers working on it.
I spent 500EUR for this phone so I think it is up to Nokia to regularly pay a developer for this. After I found out that there is no Linux version of the Nokia PC Suite I asked the Nokia support how to sync my N900.

Nokia selbst bietet keine Software/Treiber zur Verwendung/Synchronisation des Nokia N900 mit Linux an.

Dementsprechend können wir leider keine Aussage über die Existenz und Verfügbarkeit bzw. Kompatibilität der Nokia Produkte, mit Linux Software treffen. Daher bitten wir Sie freundlichst, sich an den Anbieter der Linux - Software zu wenden, da uns die Informationen, um Ihnen kompetent weiterzuhelfen zu können, nicht vorliegen.
In english (shortened) : "Nokia offers no sw/drivers for syncing the N900 with Linux.
Thus we can't tell about the compatibility of Nokia products with Linux sw. Therefore we ask you kindly to pose your question to your Linux-Software provider."

I mean, can you imagine a Windows Mobile phone not to sync with a windows pc or an iPhone to be incompatible with a Mac? Why then is it taken for granted that syncing a Linux phone with a Linux pc is not supported?
Last edited by Yminus; 2010-01-27 at 22:57.
 

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