Android-tools

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>> But by "sync" do you mean transfer from Google to the phone?
>> Actually, my first wish - I didn't make this clear -
>> is to transfer contacts from the phone to my computer or to google.
>> I don't know how to do this.
>
>
> No. You can sync your phone with Google. That means, literally, that your
> phone will sync your contacts, and whatever else, with your Google account.
> This will make all your data visible from a web browser on google.com (gmail
> for contacts, calendar, etc.). If you make changes on google.com and sync
> with your phone those changes will be reflected on your phone.
>
>
>> Also, I'm a KDE user, though I guess anything in Gnome
>> probably have an equivalent somewhere in KDE.
>
>
> A quick Google search turned this up:
> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=61649

The developer of this regularly builds RPMS for F15-16 too:
http://www.progdan.cz/2011/11/akonadi-google-resource-whats-comming/

>> Incidentally, I've always assumed that the word "sync" meant
>> to make the data in two places, eg phone and computer, the same.
>> But it seems to be used in this context simply to mean
>> "transfer from A to B"
>
>
> No, I literally meant sync. Not "sync".

-T.C.