Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?

Posted by timothy on from the ethics-schmethics dept.

Thunderstruck writes "I work in a small office with just two computers. Both machines run long-term-service releases of Ubuntu, with Gnome, and Evolution for scheduling, contact management and electronic mail. We plan to stick with Linux long-term. For telephone service, we're using smartphones. In order to keep everything straight, we need phones that can synchronize easily with the calendars and contact data on each owner's desktop machine. We cannot use cloud based services for this function due to ethics rules, and for security reasons. Right now, we do all of this with older Palm phones, but these are a dying breed. What options are out there right now for phones that will sync with Evolution (or another good Linux PIM suite) which do not require data to go through the cloud first?"

4 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Windows Mobile. by AnonymousClown · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...running Windows Mobile 6.5. Works fine, ...

    *Looks around Slashdot in embarrassment because he said "Windows works fine"*

    --
    RIP America

    July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001

  2. Re:Windows Mobile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds like a bug to me... They'll fix that with the next update.

  3. "an office with two computers" ??? by lytles · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's not an office, that's a closet ...

    --
    My blog
  4. Re:Android is what you want by Blackbrain · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you load software on it without iTunes?

    --
    Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?