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[Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

Exciting times. Thanks for letting us know about this.

On 5 April 2010 10:23, Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We're still ramping up our servers to support new record level loads, so we
> expect the next week or two to be a bit bumpy. We should have these
> infrastructure improvements ready before the Lucid release.
>
> All of the information to start testing is available at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/PhoneSync/
>

Any chance this page can get some love from the developers?

My phone (Android based HTC Hero) is not listed at
https://edge.one.ubuntu.com/phones/ - perhaps you should add a note to
_that_ page rather than have it has a bracketed side note on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/PhoneSync/ that iphone and android
users might want to click one of these three links. The fact that two
of the most popular platforms (iPhone and Android) are relegated to
side notes rings alarm bells for me.

On the subject of which none of them lead me to a friendly way to
install funambol on my phone. The first two are flat out broken links
(accept this could be a local issue) the third tells me the project
has moved and there's no easy way on the target linked page to
actually _get_ a released package, just an alpha version. Not sure I
like the sound of alpha quality code monkeying with my contacts :S

Looking at the alpha link I see "Latest version is Funambol Sync
Client v. 8.5 (alpha), contacts sync for Android 2.0 only (not
compatible with Android 1.6 and older"). The HTC Hero runs 1.6. So it
looks like I can't install it even if I wanted to.

Navigating to "Downloads" and then "I want to sync my Phone"
https://www.forge.funambol.org/download/#phone (the direct link we
should probably have on the wiki), I find Android only listed under
"Latest Funambol Clients Developers-only Release v. 8.5".

Furthermore I'd much prefer to install a package from the marketplace.
Given we are often telling our Ubuntu users to use the store/package
manager to search rather than installing debs from random sites, it
seems somewhat crooked to ask people to do exactly that on their
phone.

The whole "installing something on the phone" process needs to be made
a lot smoother and it should be made clear in the wiki that Android
1.6 isn't even supported. HTC Heros still ship with 1.6 and they're a
fairly popular phone here in the UK.

Cheers,
Al.