Samsung SCH-A990
PC Syncronization
Does anyone have experience yet with synching your calendar, contacts, notes and photos between this phone and your PC?
I really like the form factor of this phone and it's 3.2mp camera but my real need is to synchronize data with my desktop.
I use Lotus Notes for my calendar, contacts and personal notes and have no illusions (well, maybe one small hopeful one) that this phone can synch with that but can it synch with anything? Will it synch via Bluetooth or by USB or both? What applications will it synch with; Outlook Express? Outlook? Other?
Is it easy to move photos stored in the phone's internal memory to the PC via cable or USB? Or do you really have to move them one by one to the card and put that in your PC?
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I really like the form factor of this phone and it's 3.2mp camera but my real need is to synchronize data with my desktop.
I use Lotus Notes for my calendar, contacts and personal notes and have no illusions (well, maybe one small hopeful one) that this phone can synch with that but can it synch with anything? Will it synch via Bluetooth or by USB or both? What applications will it synch with; Outlook Express? Outlook? Other?
Is it easy to move photos stored in the phone's internal memory to the PC via cable or USB? Or do you really have to move them one by one to the card and put that in your PC?
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I have no experience with synchronizing with this phone, I use a HP Pocket PC for calendar, to do, and contacts from Lotus Notes.
As far as the moving of pictures. What I do is I have a Mini SD memory card that I purchased and save them onto the card as you would with a regular digital camera. The card came with a SD Card adaptor in which I then insert into my PC. This again is similiar to the way I would load pictures from my digital camera.
I hope this helps
As far as the moving of pictures. What I do is I have a Mini SD memory card that I purchased and save them onto the card as you would with a regular digital camera. The card came with a SD Card adaptor in which I then insert into my PC. This again is similiar to the way I would load pictures from my digital camera.
I hope this helps
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Forgot to mention, the default on the saving of the photos is set to the Mini SD Card.
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Actually, in camera options, you go to settings, memory, and then choose whether to save to default album or card.
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Now that I have the phone I've learned a couple of things. BitPim definitely let me synch my contacts and my calendar using Bluetooth, unfortunately not directly from Lotus Notes. Even though this phone is not yet supported by BitPim I was able to use the SCH-a930 profile to let me connect. I'm looking forward to an update to BitPim to allow more of the features of this phone synch.
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I input my calendar into bitbim in .ics format, but the events that got through to the phone were all screwed up. Only one out of hundreds of events was actually right. I suspect it has to do with complex recursions. So I intend to run icalparser (a perl module) to break all my events into non-recurring events for the next year and upload that, but I haven't tried it yet.
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