I got a new phone a couple of weeks back — a Motorola V265 flip phone — that seems to be working just fine. It’s a big step from the V120c I have been carrying for the past couple of years, what with the color screen, camera, and all.
Today, the nice USPS driver brought me a cable to hook up it to my iBook so I could use iSync. It was a bit of a gamble, since I didn’t know for sure if it would work. Once I got the cable connected — fiddly little connection that it is — it works. I can put all the listings in my Address Book into the phone, after having merged them.
So I paid $.97 for the cable (with the attendant mini-CD that I can’t use since I have a slot loading system) and the package shows $.98 paid for shipping. So the $10 or so for shipping and handling went where, exactly? <grumble: the joys of eBay . . . >
Anyway, it seems to work as far as getting data back and forth, and as a bonus the cable will charge the phone as well. I’m not sure the two address databases match, though since I seem to have multiple records for people with different contact methods (one for home phone, for cell phone, for email . . . ) rather than a single record with multiple ways to contact the person.
More as I explore this.