...and gmail contacts? hi I am not a fan of microsoft, apple or google...
I own a android phone because I see it as the lesser of 3 evils.
I know that symbian has gone open source, but I am so much of an linux fanboy that I bought an android phone anyway.
I hate that google forces me to use a gmail to access my device, and I want to use google products as little as possible (spying for free - no thanks).
what I am lacking is a good calender and contacts app that can sync with the cloud (or is easily transferable to future phones), preferably free software, or atleast opensource. I don't mind if it's proprietary as long as they have a license agreement where they promise not to spy (like Google who reads your emails and stores all your google searches in a database so it can figure out what kinda person you are and based on target commercials towards, and who hands over your data to the FBI for only 25$
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I read the following at "http://www.fabcapo.com/2010/05/google-where-is-calendar-api-in-android.html":
"You can do all that, and it works pretty well when you just read the calendar. However, as soon as you try to write to it, creating a new calendar, Google gets upset. At the next sync with Google Calendar on the cloud, any calendar that is not on the Google servers gets wiped out on the device. Not nice. Not nice."
So anyway, my question is which app is the best/most open/free to manage contacts, and which app is the best/most open/free to use as a calender?
and don't say Yahoo... they arn't (much better than google...) the only difference is that they charge 29$ (http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/15282)
I own a android phone because I see it as the lesser of 3 evils.
I know that symbian has gone open source, but I am so much of an linux fanboy that I bought an android phone anyway.
I hate that google forces me to use a gmail to access my device, and I want to use google products as little as possible (spying for free - no thanks).
what I am lacking is a good calender and contacts app that can sync with the cloud (or is easily transferable to future phones), preferably free software, or atleast opensource. I don't mind if it's proprietary as long as they have a license agreement where they promise not to spy (like Google who reads your emails and stores all your google searches in a database so it can figure out what kinda person you are and based on target commercials towards, and who hands over your data to the FBI for only 25$
)I read the following at "http://www.fabcapo.com/2010/05/google-where-is-calendar-api-in-android.html":
"You can do all that, and it works pretty well when you just read the calendar. However, as soon as you try to write to it, creating a new calendar, Google gets upset. At the next sync with Google Calendar on the cloud, any calendar that is not on the Google servers gets wiped out on the device. Not nice. Not nice."
So anyway, my question is which app is the best/most open/free to manage contacts, and which app is the best/most open/free to use as a calender?
and don't say Yahoo... they arn't (much better than google...) the only difference is that they charge 29$ (http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/15282)