Sony Ericsson w810i and Linux

Despite all problems I had to stop my phone subscription at Orange , my new subscription will be an Orange one , after all, they are not so bad , my choice was a little quickly and I chose a Sony Ericsson w810i , I would have to check the compatibility of this telephone with Linux… Indeed I would like to be able to synchronize it with Kontact , in particular the calendar, To-do and the list of contacts… If like me you have large fingers: the keyboard of the portable telephone can be for you a nightmare

The good point of Sony Ericsson w810i is that it is provided with a USB cable to connect it with your PC, when it is connected, two modes are available:

1. File transfer
2. phone mode

The “File transfer” mode allows you to transfer the data from your mobile phone to Linux. But I have not yet succeed to make the contrary… The phone mode can be used with Kmobiltools to see contacts, the SMS sent and receives, to telephone and send SMS. But I still did not find the ultimate tool allowing me to synchronize my mobile phone with my KDE with the USB link, for that I am testing some software:

1. Kandy: hmmm… that does not work!
   
2. Kmobiletools: works very well but it is not what I am looking for
   
3. Wammu/Gammu: the X interface is very ugly but this software seems to works well when it does not freeze
   
4. Gnokii: command line tool and requires to create yourself a configuration file. Kontact uses this tool by default, but that does not work very well
   
5. GCALSYNC: that deviates a little my wired vision of a local synchronisation, but that will at least enable me to manage correctly my schedule.
   

For the moment I am reduce to synchronize my telephone under Windows… and synchronise Windows with Linux… this is not the universal panacea but I seek and hope well to find a perfect solution

Tags: kandy, telephone, Sony, ericsson, w810i, kmobiletools, wammu, gammu, gnokii, gcalsync, kontact, kde, to synchronize