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I will be replacing my Blackberry with the new Motorola Backflip with Motoblur that is now available through AT&T wireless. While I'm not locked in to AT&T Wireless getting my wife and mother to move to new phones is an issue. Most of the features of the Android phones I am familiar with, but a couple of things I'd like to do:\. First, I would like to be able to share my contacts with Thunderbird. I know that I can sync with Google. The Calendar is less important because I already use Google Calendar. I would like to be able to sync with Outlook for work. The other thing is sharing contacts between Android and Thunderbird. More specifically, my Thunderbird contacts are huge, and I don't want to pollute my PDA contacts. But I would like to be able to use and update the Android contacts from my hime Linux system. This leaves 1 question: With builtin WiFi, can I NFS export Android so I can access the contacts directly. Another issue is some password stuff. With the Palm I used to have the memo pad with some entries password protected. If for some reason I lost my Palm, the passwords and other data would at least be a bit difficult to get at (but crackable). I'd like an app where I could keep sensitive data encrypted but also that I could share that data with Linux and possibly with Putty on that other OS. Basically, what I want is a Palm or Blackberry-like memo pad (I've seen a few apps that seem to fit the bill such as "Sticky Memo Widget Lite". BTW: My daughter's boyfrind has a Moto Droid and loved the Google GPS turn by turn directions. The other things that are important to me, like backup is is already available, so --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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