Timothy Pearson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA224 > >> Timothy Pearson wrote: >> >>> As I don't generally use / sync mobile devices for various security and >>> privacy reasons I don't know what would need to be done to get this >>> working correctly. �What is your general use case? >> >> Thanks for the reply! >> >> My problem is (I don't know if use case is appropriate), that I was able >> to >> sync my phone and Palm III without issue until 2005. Palm broke and phone >> was replaced some time after and sync stopped working, because newer >> phones >> were using SyncML already. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by saying privacy - I want to have my events, >> notes, todos in sync on TDE and my phone - I don't see any problem if I >> sync up via USB cable between PC and phone. > > And from my perspective I wouldn't ever want my private notes uploaded to > the NSA/<other three letter agency>/Google/<other corporate busybody> over > the baseband connection after they are on the phone. That's generally > private information (raw unfiltered thoughts), similar to the contents of > a personal diary, that in a civilised society only I should ever see. > When anyone else starts reading your raw unfiltered thoughts, especially > when those same entities can take action against you, it introduces severe > chilling effects across the entire population that are long-term damaging > to democratic societies. > > tl;dr: I never put anything on a phone that hasn't been thoroughly thought > through and is ready for public scrutiny. It's an old policy, and one > that has unfortunately been proven correct over the years. Now Microsoft > is even snooping through everyone's personal files looking for who knows > what to make money. Here I agree with you. This is why I do not use Microsoft, Apple or Google devices and services. Regarding the need to sync up information it is pretty clear. I want to have same set of data (Contacts, Notes etc) on my devices and be able to modify on one single place. > >> So I am looking for a way to sync up few devices. Tablet, 2xPhones, TDE >> etc. >> What should be synced is the trivial once (cal, event, address, todo, >> notes) and possibly all the rest possible to be synced via syncML >> (images, mp3 etc - but this is nice to have - I'm sure it will work as >> the syncml >> library is pretty good - we just miss an interface in TDE for it). > > I am unfamiliar with syncML. Do any of these phones / sync solutions use > a standard interface (similar to CalDAV, CardDAV, etc.) or are they all > proprietary / device class specific APIs? > Perhaps my knowledge is outdated, but still I can not get the contacts etc between the N9 and TDE and I would love to. I think the discussion is pretty useful. I'll jump down to the mail from Slavek. regards