Comment Finally - a good PIM device (Score 2, Informative) 41
What I'm hoping to see is an open solution that I/everyone can contribute to so we have a good open standards compliant PIM software.
Currently all of the folks that write PIM software for cell phones have created their own flavours of iCalendar and vcard. They improve their implementations with each new cell phone and each revision of each new cell phone, but quite a lot of limitations and problems still exist. It's hard to support moving targets like this and the targets have been moving slowly for over 4 years.
Personally (as the author of a SyncML solution and someone who has to support n phones/revisions across the globe) I haven't seen any cell phone devices use anything but the older deprecated VCARD standard. I also don't remember (very tired though) seeing any devices that support the newer IETF iCalendar standard. I believe an open solution would be able to get out an updated implementation of the newer standards and enable a much higher level of functionality and interoperability. I believe a better PIM foundation will enable more interesting and useful applications and services to be built.
Cheers.
Currently all of the folks that write PIM software for cell phones have created their own flavours of iCalendar and vcard. They improve their implementations with each new cell phone and each revision of each new cell phone, but quite a lot of limitations and problems still exist. It's hard to support moving targets like this and the targets have been moving slowly for over 4 years.
Personally (as the author of a SyncML solution and someone who has to support n phones/revisions across the globe) I haven't seen any cell phone devices use anything but the older deprecated VCARD standard. I also don't remember (very tired though) seeing any devices that support the newer IETF iCalendar standard. I believe an open solution would be able to get out an updated implementation of the newer standards and enable a much higher level of functionality and interoperability. I believe a better PIM foundation will enable more interesting and useful applications and services to be built.
Cheers.
