“I’ve been an enthusiastic owner of a GSM cellphone since 1999.
I soon bought a serial communication cable to connect it to my PC.
Since then I’ve tested several tools to retrieve and send data
between the two. Searching the net one day I came across Gammu, a
Linux-based command-line-driven open source synchronisation and
backup tool written in C, focused mainly on Nokia models old and
new. Gammu lets you retrieve and send SMS directly from your PC,
synchronize your address book data, manage your calendar, and check
out internal information about your phone’s firmware and IMEI
number…”
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