Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Synchronise files on both WM and Nokia

Nokia's PC Suite 6.85 (maybe started from 1-2 releases earlier) has new feature to synchronise files beyond PIM data.

Conditions
  1. The phone's folder is \Briefcase, either phone memory or storage card, whereas we can define folder on harddisc.
  2. Any files can be included, but does not mean that the phone can open all file types. So it's not wise to synchronise all data from PPC to phone.

Recommendation
  1. Define a subfolder inside PPC's "My Documents" such as "sync2" to put files we want to synchronise to both PPC and Nokia.
  2. Do not save Word document as RTF, Nokia cannot open it.

Practical mobiling: MS Office Mobile 6

Saving Word document as .RTF takes file size less than .DOC/.DOCX format.

Concerns:-
  1. PC's Write or WordPad does not support paragraph numbering as available in PPC, just only bulleting.
  2. Other mobile devices (Nokia for example) may not recognise to open RTF file.

Therefore, it is good choice for small note (more than .PWI but less than .DOC) with simple bulleting/numbering, and synchronised with RTF-readable device.