<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I feel sorry for all the people who went to that "unconference". I went last year, left after 30 mins and heard from someone else that he did the same thing this year. It's more like a "get me really confused now" conference than anything else. Ah, buzzwords and hype...</font><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">It's quite simple to buy an Android phone (Telstra sells some, hundreds out there, which doesn't make it easier to pick one), get a Gmail account and sync them over 3G or WiFi. No need to think about the 'cloud'. Google services are just a big powerful service over the 'innernet'.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Personally I don't
give a toss if the Big Googgly has my info, apart from my credit cards... I am not that important that anyone would care! ;)</font></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Fred<br><div><br>--- On <b>Tue, 1/4/11, home@oranges.id.au <i><home@oranges.id.au></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: home@oranges.id.au <home@oranges.id.au><br>Subject: Re: [plug] phone synchronisation<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 5:05 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 4 January 2011 16:46, James Bromberger <<a ymailto="mailto:james@rcpt.to" href="/mc/compose?to=james@rcpt.to">james@rcpt.to</a>> wrote:<br>> I have Thunderbird, with the Lightning Plugin, and the Google Celendar<br>> provider. Hence my calendar is actually a Google calendar, which there<br>> by
works with my Thunderbird, and natively with my Android phone. I read<br>> my mail via IMAP from my server using Thunderbird on the desktop, and<br>> the native IMAP client in the Android. The contacts list in the phone is<br>> synchronised to my (not very used) GMail account.<br>><br>> Android is very much a "cloud phone"; most/all services work neatly with<br>> online sync, not so much with personal workstation sync - through I've<br>> not tried.<br><br>I hang my head in shame to have not even thought of the cloud. Oh how<br>old and local machine oriented I have become. I even attended the<br>Cloud Unconference a few weeks ago in the CBD, but clearly nothing<br>sank in (:<br><br>Okay, deep breath, nagging Google's-got-my-information fears blithely<br>brushed aside, that sounds like a pretty interesting option...<br>especially because it's based on Android (probably the highest scoring<br>combination of Free and functional?), and
conceptually simple enough<br>that I can already imagine it working.<br><br>Talk to me about this Android phone. Do I need to use direct web<br>access to synchronise it? Or can I just WiFi at home and use it merely<br>as a phone elsewhere?<br><br>Tell me more about Android phones... how many are there, what do they<br>cost etc? Any chance of NextG?<br><br><br>> I think turning the question around is perhaps easier - can you get<br>> Thunderbird to sync from the same cloud data providers that Android<br>> would support? With calendaring (Lightning), the answer is pretty much<br>> "yes". YMMV. Happy to discuss/show on Tuesday (next week) at the AGM.<br><br>I wish. Tuesday nights are SAGE-AU and PLUG meeting absences for me<br>due to other commitments.<br><br>-- <br>Gregory Orange<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: <a ymailto="mailto:plug@plug.org.au"
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