Maemo 5 Contacts / Address Book
 

Address books and contacts have been a bane of my life. It can't just be me, surely, but some of my contacts are always more complicated than any software can deal with.

I've recently made a big effort to rationalise all my contacts in Thunderbird and sync that with other devices, including my n800. The address book applications in both my Nokia mobile phones really sucks and I have never tried to synchronise them with Thunderbird.

Now the n900 announcement promises this:

Is the Maemo 5 address book going to be any good?

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It appears to support every single contact field I have ever seen and then some. I don't think you'll have anything to worry about on that front.

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I just hope it works better than Ovi contacts...

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Here's hoping. It's not the fields that are important, its the need to allow flexibility - people with two work addresses, people that share an address, addresses that dont have ZIp codes or cities, addresses where the post code doesn't go the same place as in UK/US. etc etc.

But if it's SyncML as I've read, things should be fine.

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Hopefully we'll also be able to set the 'display by' field for every record, so that we can have some entries displaying by surname, and some by company name.

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The specs page say syncml only over BT or USB. That is kind of weird, but maybe it is part of the sellout to Microsoft announced recently since microsoft is really trying to make activesync the 'standard'

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Can confirm this, I have N900 and there is no OTA SyncML capability... This means that there is no Ovi Contacts via SyncML but Ovi is listed under the My Accounts Control Panel option. Adding my Ovi details into this didn't pull down my Ovi contacts, just my Ovi chat contacts...

Personally hoping that we will see a Google Contacts Sync client for Meamo 5 - Since Android arrived all my contacts are in Google contacts...

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so there is as of this moment no optimal way of migrating contacts and calendar from an s60 device (synchronized with ovi) to the n900?

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This is ridiculous if true. I'm starting to understand the step 4/5 comments.

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From s60 & s40 this is quite easy - a BT SyncML import utility - Can either import, export or sync with a device via BT.

Will check which objects can be sync'd - not got a s60 device to hand at the moment.