(keitai-l) Re: Backing up J-phone cellphone data

From: Paul Bryan Lester <pbl1_at_cornell.edu>
Date: 03/31/03
Message-ID: <3E875FCA.878B1381@cornell.edu>
    I'm planning on looking into it soon also.  I have also been
disappointed
with the ones I have tried out so far.  But maybe I'll have some good
news after my trials.

    Keitai-oo (master?) 9 seems to be the best thing out there according
to the box at least.

Paul Hardy wrote:

> > Docomo would not let me keep my old phone, either. They
> > insisted on taking it away from me. I really should have made
> > a stink about it.
>
> J-Phone simply programmed a bogus phone number into it, so it can't
> work, and handed it over to me.
>
> > Oh, joy. Can you at least get the data out and into some
> > form, such as CDF files, that you can read without the program?
>
> It supports the ubiquitous vCard format, and can import .csv files, but
> handily wrecks them both. Oh, it can download the schedule, but having
> exported from Outlook, imported to KTM9, I discover it can't actually
> upload to the phone.
>
> > This is the really horrible thing about these sorts of
> > proprietary Thdevices. ey hold your data hostage.
>
> Yet strangely, the physical connector is now common to most phones. I'd
> appreciate pointers to the open-source software when you come across
> them.
>
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-Paul Lester
Received on Mon Mar 31 00:27:29 2003