Some Android questions

[Jerry Feldman]

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

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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