Well, I finally got my calendar data from my Treo 700 and 755 into my gmail calendar, thanks to our buddy "shred". It took some time and fooling around, but my data back to my 1999 Handspring got saved and moved. (Sounds almost like a spiritual thing!!!)
My contacts however, are in waiting. Just for the sake of those that might "lurk" this thread, and not realize the issues here, let me spell out a thing or 2.
In PalmOS devices, even going back further than mine, when you create a new contact you are given 6 places, each to store 1 of 7 different types of contact string, and 1 place for an address of 3 different types. The 6 places for 7 types can be in any order for any contact. THAT is why a simple csv file export won't work to other contact managers. Most other contact managers have fixed fields for entry of each of those types of contact character strings. In Palms, you can have 6 work phone numbers for 1 contact, 5 home phones and a pager for another, 1 home phone, 1 pager, 1 mobile, 2 emails and a FAX for somebody else, etc, etc..
That's why I personally feel that PalmOS has not been equaled in contact management. Since Android is "open", this leaves some opportunity, and hope, that it will come up with a better contact management system than Outlook, vCard, Blackberry, Yahoo, or the present gmail contacts. I think it'd be awesome if "shred" or Richard (or the 2 of them), OR SOMEBODY, would build an Android app that does all that, sell it on the marketplace and get rich and provide all the rest of us with a good, open, solid contact manager!
Wow, I feel better now.......
;-p
.... did I mention "Tasks" yet?
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