On Fri, 10 May 2002, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
> The best solution would appear to be a combination of PDA, mobile phone,
> Bluetooth, notebook, desktop back home/in the office, link up via VPN
> over the internet.
>
> Then, when you got a new number in one of the mobile devices, you can
> synchronise via Bluetooth with any other mobile device or via the
> internet with your desktop back home or server in the office.
Yeah, no kidding. Each of my devices satisfies a different need:
1. Keitai. Always with me, and what I use to phone people and
send short e-mail messages with.
2. PDA. Usually with me, stores much more information in an
address book entry than a keitai, and is easier for input than
a keitai.
3. Computer. Much easier input and editing, but hard to access
except when at home or at work.
IMHO, my PDA should have all address book information in it, because
it's got enough memory for it (128 MB Memory Stick) and works
without secure network access.
The computer should hold a backup copy of this information and let
me edit it and synchronize with my PDA.
My phone should have a subset of the information; e-mail and phone
numbers of those in whatever region is handy for me or for that
particular phone.
A few years ago I figured out what I thought was a pretty good way
to do this; just make all entries in address books, calendars, etc.
into Java objects, and come up with a set of interfaces suitable
for various applications. (E.g., a smallish interface giving access
to information suited for a phone, larger ones for computers and
PDAs, user-customized ones if the user feels like it or for custom
applications, etc.) Then you could just ship the objects, or copies
of them, around to the various devices that need them.
Maybe one day.
cjs
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Received on Tue May 14 05:12:13 2002