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I trust that I am posting this in the right place, it is intended to be in the P800/P900/P910i section, but anyway here goes.
I am thrilled to finally be in posession of my new 910i, and have invested hours getting to know it, I am sure I will get to know it better as time goes on.
I used to have a palm pilot, and was good at hotsyncing to my laptop on a daily basis. One of the things that I found useful, was the ability to edit, delete, and add contacts or meetings etc through the laptop while I was in the office. I was assuming that the P910i would have a similar PC Desktop program to do the same. for example I have copied all my contacts from old phone to SIM, and then SIm to P910i, but now I would like to edit them, and group them etc.
Does anyone know of a program that will let me do this, and then sync with the phone?
BTW I don't use Outlook, I use Eudora (personal choice) and the only sync thing that I saw on the first installation was with Windows address book (or something like that) that I am not familiar with.
I'd appreciate any and all feedback on this, from all you experienced users.
many thanks!
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Posted: 2005-02-14 07:27:31
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Welcome to Esato.
Yes, you did post in the right forum.
Have you tried Lotus?The P-series are only syncable to Outlook and Lotus.
I don't think there is a dedicated program for contacts that goes beyond the two that comes with the phone; Outlook and Lotus.
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[ This Message was edited by: tranquil on 2005-02-14 06:45 ]
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Posted: 2005-02-14 07:42:00
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Thanks! Guess I'll have to try those, I just remember Lotus being a spreadsheet way way back before Excel became the typical standard. I know people use Lotus notes, will have to do some digging.
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Posted: 2005-02-14 07:51:36
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Looks like the New PC Suite from here:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/s[....]_1&pid=10183&fid=9926&esi=true may do the trick
Version 3.1.1
Quote:Sync Station allows you to synchronise content such as contacts, calendar, tasks, notes and e-mails between your mobile phone and applications on your computer.
The version I got with the phone was an earlier one
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:01:52
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Stiil, it say:
Requirements
-Desk-stand, Infrared or Bluetooth
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Microsoft Outlook/Lotus Notes/Lotus Organizer
-Win98 SP1/98SE/2000 SP2/ME/XP
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:08:38
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Well I guess I could use outlook just to contact sync, and I'll look at Lotus notes and Organiser too, but it would be rather extreme to get those programs just to be able to edit the phone through the Laptop!
Thanks again
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:12:35
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Sure
Keep in mind though; The only way to "group" your contacts are by Firs name, Last name, Company First name and Company Last name.
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:15:12
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Sounds like I'm in for hours of discovery, just started the task, still trying to figure out the difference between Lotus Notes and Lotus organizer, and whether Notes is a part of organizer and whether I need one, the other or them both.
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:29:37
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Sorry, never used Lotus so I can't help you out on that one.
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Posted: 2005-02-14 08:49:19
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The sync with Windows apps i.e. Outlook (I didn't try Lotus, please correct me) was awful for me.
I need to have a lot of phone numbers per contact - e.g. 1 to 3 landlines, 1-5 mobile phone numbers (local SIMs in different countries for friends who travel lots), and often a few sat phone numbers too.
Whilst the phone can very happily cope with all these, when I sync'd to Outlook it deleted half of them as it only supports one or two per phone type (e.g. one work phone, one home phone, one home mobile etc etc) or something like that. It didn't tell me, mind you, it just deleted the additional numbers.
So I've ended up syncing with my desktop Mac's Apple Address Book application via iSync, which works absolutely perfectly.
It's annoying, because I want to be able to sync (or even just edit the phone's contents directly, that would be fine) with my Windows laptop which I travel with, but as far as I can see there is no solution. Would love if people know of an app that can edit/add contacts directly from the pc - like the Nokia Phone Editor.
Ben
PS - I know I could have different names for each contact - e.g. "John - cellphone", "John - home" etc but I don't want to do that.
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Posted: 2005-02-15 21:39:40
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