benny1967
05-08-2009, 04:39 AM
I use scheduleworld right now to sync my contacts between my desktop computer, my mobile phone and my 2 tablets.
There's two problems now: scheduleworld will charge a fee of ~$25 per year in the future and, more important, it doesn't work reliably and has a really bad web interface full of unnecessary scripting nonsense that makes most of my browsers crash or at least freeze for minutes.
So I would like to change to a SyncML service that is not more expensive than scheduleworld will be, but has a history of being reliable and has a fast, lightweight web interface. (An addidtional requirement is that in must not be a Google service or run by a company that is controlled by Google. I don't want to expose details of people I know to this company.)
I don't need the other gimmicks offered at scheduleworld: LDAP never worked for Evolution, anyway, I don't use the calendar, nor do I use IMAP. Sync my contacts and quickly look them up via a web interface, thats all I want.
I would have loved to use Ovi sync for this (it's the most obvious choice, isn't it? 3 of the 4 devices to be synced are made by Nokia), but they managed to make it completely unusable:
It's not compatible to generic SyncML clients (such as syncevolution, which is what I use on the tablets and on the desktop), because as a user you never get a password.
Also, it has bugs (see this one (http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=ovi&message.id=938) that I'm experiencing) that Nokia support keeps ignoring... (I'm waiting for a reply for 1 month now)
So... do any of you have experiences with SyncML services out in the wild? I'm be interested in both recommendations and warnings... ;)
There's two problems now: scheduleworld will charge a fee of ~$25 per year in the future and, more important, it doesn't work reliably and has a really bad web interface full of unnecessary scripting nonsense that makes most of my browsers crash or at least freeze for minutes.
So I would like to change to a SyncML service that is not more expensive than scheduleworld will be, but has a history of being reliable and has a fast, lightweight web interface. (An addidtional requirement is that in must not be a Google service or run by a company that is controlled by Google. I don't want to expose details of people I know to this company.)
I don't need the other gimmicks offered at scheduleworld: LDAP never worked for Evolution, anyway, I don't use the calendar, nor do I use IMAP. Sync my contacts and quickly look them up via a web interface, thats all I want.
I would have loved to use Ovi sync for this (it's the most obvious choice, isn't it? 3 of the 4 devices to be synced are made by Nokia), but they managed to make it completely unusable:
It's not compatible to generic SyncML clients (such as syncevolution, which is what I use on the tablets and on the desktop), because as a user you never get a password.
Also, it has bugs (see this one (http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=ovi&message.id=938) that I'm experiencing) that Nokia support keeps ignoring... (I'm waiting for a reply for 1 month now)
So... do any of you have experiences with SyncML services out in the wild? I'm be interested in both recommendations and warnings... ;)