My PC Suite broke. Or rather, the Synchronization bit, which was the one i needed and used the most. Having a telephone that doesn’t carry my calendar and my contacts sucks. Which is the same as having two calendars and two sets of contacts, which equally sucks.

Enter the Mail for Exchange, the Exchange synch plugin from Nokia. This software is marketed for the Business Users of Nokia phones, i.e. the E-series, but since E-phones tend to be S60-phones and my N71 is one too, i decided to try it out.

When downloading, Nokia wants you to tell which phone you have.  I chose the “smallest” E-phone, the E50, since neither the E50 nor the N71 have WLAN (which, yeah, sucks). The installation took a few attempts since my phone memory was so full — can somebody tell me why it’s reported that i have one meg of memory free when i have about one meg of material on my phone’s sixteen-meg “c-drive”? Also, the first synchronization went pretty much haywire as i chose not to delete the entries from the phone prior to the initial sync.  Don’t do that if you’re thin on memory.

But now — hey presto! — over-the-air synchronization works beautifully! How excellent