[by Silvarios] [from Hacking iSync to work with my Nokia 6086]

My new phone saga continues. I couldn’t figure out how to send my Address Book contacts to and from my Nokia 6086 and my MacBook. When I first configure the Bluetooth connection between the Nokia and my Mac I’m given two options:
1. Address Book
2. Internet Connection

The second options works great, but I never was able to grok the whole share Address Book info. Maybe I’m just dense. I can browse most of the directories on my phone from my Mac except for a few crucial spots, such as the Nokia’s Address Book. Big postitive note, just copied an episode of the Tech Night Owl Live to my phone’s new 2GB MicroSD card and it works great, well the process of copying the file went smoothly, but the Nokia’s media player is a bit lacking. I can’t seem to resume playback from the same spot after I answer a call and then hang up, fine for plenty of musical tracks, not so great when I’m somewhere in the middle of a two hour podcast.

Back to the Address Book syncing. iSync is not natively compatible with my Nokia 6086 cell phone, at least as of Mac OS 10.4.11, but when there’s the internet, there’s a way. Found three links right off the bat (thanks Google):
1. A somewhat lackluster review of the Nokia 6086 on some random person’s blog
2. Which linked me to a HowardForums post on how to hack my copy of iSync.
3. And finally this page which linked to a slightly different tactic in attaining iSync compatibility as option two did.

Sure, my phone graphic in iSync is wrong as I’m using some random Nokia phone graphic already included with iSync, but option three contains an image which will work fine once converted to tiff.

Nathan

Edit: I lost the actual link for my first “link three” and so you get the fourth way I found instead. Oops, then I forgot to add/fix links for number 3 and now that as well is fixed.