On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
This is a question to all the Android users. Is this a good option or better option for LInux users? Do these phones have a 'suite' that is made for Linux? How simple and easy it is to attach an Android phone to a Linux box and use it comprehensively like a typical Nokia suite?
These phones support ActiveSync, which is a standard Sync protocol. Any ActiveSync software can be used to sync contacts etc.
Thats why if you plug it into Windows 7 or Mac, it would appear as a phone with contacts/calendars/messages and not as dumb USB pen drive. There you do not need Nokia PC Suite or any other software to sync data with PC.
With Linux, there is no "Out of Box" ActiveSync client that is as integrated as Windows 7 or Mac, but with some efforts it can be setup.
-Shamit