Phones and Apple Mac's?

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Hello everyone, my first post

Can you even connect any phones to a mac's these days?

For example i am looking at the Nokia N80.

But there would be no point in me getting it if i could not connect to my mac mini and get the photo's of it or connect to itunes etc.

Can this be done? I found this driver but god knows if it would work and does the N80 even come with a USB lead? ( i don't have bluetooth on my mac either )

Or any other phones that are Mac compatible
 
Most Motorolas and Sony Ericssons work beautifully with Macs. You can sync your calendar, address book, transfer images/audio/video, etc.

Also check out Salling Clicker (http://www.salling.com)which allows you to control your mac via bluetooth using yoru phone.
 
Thanks

I don't have bluetooth on my mac mini though

All i will want to really do is get the pictures of the phone (N80 example)

There is not much point me getting a camera phone unless i can plug into my mac mini with usb and get the pics off.
 
Yeah Most motos and nokias have expandable memory and so sams and lgs and its so easy to use the Tf card to transfer songs off itunes to my mp3 player on my phone and take pics off that way.
 
Get a USB memory card reader. They're cheap and transfers will be much faster than over USB direct to your phone. I've used a SE K750i and SE w800i with my Mac (OS X 10.4) with great success this way. Bluetooth also works well (also worked with my Moto v551), though I prefer the card reader for photos - you can get a USB bluetooth adapter pretty cheap these days (third party, NOT from Apple). Transferring to/from my w800i with the included USB cable works, but it's dog slow. Only thing that's a pain is that SE phones aren't recognized by iTunes - they come with media management software that only runs under Windows. iPhoto reads the memory card like a digital camera, which is great, but to transfer songs onto the phone I have to use shareware apps which are a little flakey.

Only phone that's flat out NOT worked with my Mac is a Benq p50 running Windows Mobile 2003. Bluetooth wouldn't work, and I couldn't get it to sync via USB either, even with a shareware app. I gave up trying since I'm going to sell the phone, anyway.
 
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