iSync and Samsung D500 ?!

Please use the search functinality in this forum. The Samsung D500 lacks any open mobile data synchronisation standard (like IrMC Level 4 or SyncML over OBEX) and you will have to do a lot to convince Apple to support your device.

the D500 DOES support SyncML!!

I hope it’s just a matter of time until Apple supports iSync with the D500. As far as I can tell, it does support SyncML. Until the arrival of the D500 there was no Samsung mobile with Bluetooth support, so maybe this is why the device has been 'overlooked' by Apple.

One E720 owner waiting impatiently for iSync Samsung support also!

The Samsung D500 and E720 support no SyncML over OBEX. They support SyncML over HTTP to synchronize over the GSM network but not SyncML via Bluetooth, IrDA or cable connection. The Samsung Windows software is using special AT commands. Samsung is years behind in their software development.

As Alexander pointed out, SyncML over OBEX is not the same as SyncML over mRouter, http, or any number of other transport mechanisms. It's a pretty sure thing that Apple will
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support that particular mobile handset, because of the non-standard, proprietary nature of its' operation. Apple is having trouble just trying to keep abreast of much more widely adopted and closer-to-standardized technology from manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia. In fact, I think it is fair to say that they a doing a thoroughly inadequate, marginal job of that, and so to expect support for a proprietary handset is simply unrealistic.

Samsung mobile handsets are popular and widely distributed, but the company has made a lot of what I would simply term 'strange decisions' regarding its' technology platforms. Yours is one example: another is the lack of support for basic SMS messaging in the Palm-based SPH-i500. What were they thinking?

Well Motorola and first Symbian OS (mRouter) support was like the Samsung support. If the demand and feedback is high enough…

Anyway Samsung is around two years behind when it comes to Software. Avoid them. Easy as that.

I stand corrected. The latest Samsung mobile phones (like D500, E720, Z500, D600, etc.) have OMA (SyncML) DS over OBEX (over data cable, infrared and Bluetooth). Samsung has bought both the client in the mobile phone as well the Windows PC software from Teleca. Because of this both the infrared service and the Bluetooth service is not advertised in their corresponding databases. If that sales package did not mention SyncML DS so prominent, yes I would have oversaw it too. But because there is no OMA (SyncML) DS over HTTP or WAP client on the phone (why?), it had to be SyncML over OBEX.

Currently (one day so far) I am playing with it and I can say, it is buggy like ****. It was a good decision to take both the client and the server of that company, otherwise it would have been a lot of work. Oh, Nokia Series 40 SyncML implementation is heaven compared to this. Anyway the Samsung PC Studio - PC Sync software uses this SyncML client and it works. So there is way. The question is how long and hard that way is.

No, Apple iSync 2.1 does not detect it and I doubt it will ever because the mobile phone does not advertise its SyncML capabilities.