Fnord.

In posting the previous story, I searched to see if I had posted this before. Surprisingly, I hadn’t.

T-mobile has a website where you can see detailed coverage information, right down to cell tower placement and street-level detail. They are the only cell carrier to do so, and it’s one of the reasons they still have my business.

The website is compass.t-mobile.com. You’ll quickly find that T-mobile is pretty urban, but if you can live with that I’ve been reasonably happy with them. They’ve also got the cheapest data plans ($20/month, vs $70 for Verizon).

I work on campus, so this is a nice idea. Load it up in the browser and you’ve got something like a specialized Google Local.

I’ve been having data loss issues trying to sync my blackberry with both the laptop and the work machine. Very problematic, and hard to resolve since the utility of the handheld drops greatly if its data is stale, missing or incorrect.

Anyway, I took a look around today, and found some interesting pieces.

Item one: SyncBerry, a $30 program for OTA (over the air, very desirable) sync. It says it talks to any SyncML server, which leads us to…

Item two: MultiSync, open source for SyncML. Not sure how to use this, but it links to…

Item three: The project formerly known as Sync4j, now called Funambol. Full syncml, explictily supports blackberry.

There’s also a half-item, a syncml plugin for multisync

Not sure how all this fits together, or if it’d work with Deban + OSX, but I sense an extended hack adventure in the near future.

UPDATED 10/24/06: Last one isn’t sync4j (text corrected), although they do use the same protocol. See comments!