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iSync is great, except for very short list of supported phones.
Here are softwares to expand support, or hint to make own plugins:

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OnSync
HOWTO: Write iSync Phone Plugins
DIY iSync™ Phone Plugin

Palm’s PDB and PRC formats are not only used by Palm, butl also by e-book reader on Symbian and even desktop PC. Here are some description on its format:

NS Basic/Palm PDB File Structure
http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/technotes/TN02a.htm
The PRC Format

http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/pilot/prc-format.html

Other related resources:
Palm emulator on Mac
BookDesigner – A tool to create PDB/PRC file?

Mac could not browse Nokia 6680′s (or, it seems, any Nokia’s S60 device) files over BT on Mac. The problem is not on Mac side, but on Nokia side. Nokia has crippled the device.

Here is how to make it work:

OBEX File Transfer on Series 60, with Bluetooth File Exchange on OS X
(See full article at http://www.martin.st/software/s60-obexftp/)

Download these softwares:
SdpBrowser
SDP Editor (for Series 60 1st and 2nd edition)

Usage:
Using SdpBrowser, select Get PC Suite info in the Device menu, select the phone and click browse. If everything works as it should, it gives the SDP record handle of the OBEX FTP record and the RFCOMM channel of the PC Suite service.

Then start SDP Editor on the phone, choose Update channel in the menu, and enter the handle and RFCOMM channel given by SdpBrowser. Then, Bluetooth File Exchange should be able to browse the files on the phone.

The handle and channel shouldn’t change as long as you don’t install/remove any service on the phone, so in general you’ll only need to rerun the application on the phone with the last, working values.

If it doesn’t give all the necessary information, you can try to read it manually from the raw SDP records. Select Browse in the Device menu, and select the phone. Look for a record with the text “OBEX File Transfer”, and look for the number on the row starting with “0:” in this record (e.g. “0: 0×10006″). That’s the record handle (in hexadecimal). Also look for a record with the text “Nokia OBEX PC Suite Services”. That record should have a row like “4: { { <0100> } }, { { <0003> }, { 0xc } }, { { <0008> } }”. Here 0xc, that is 12, is the RFCOMM channel.

A free reader for free Bibles, as well as other reading materials, on Symbian? It turns out that there is no ideal solution now:

Olive Tree
Free (but not opensource) Bible reader for Symbian, excellent usability, but only handles file produced by Olive Tree. Even though file format is Palm’s PDB, for example Palm Bible+ PDB files are not readable. So, use a general e-book reader for other reading materials? Such as Mobipocket.

Mobipocket
This general e-book reader is owned by Amazon, and is in fact quite cool. Its file format is Palm’s PRC. It has a free (but not opensource) client for Symbian, and even a free software to convert MS Word documents etc into PRC format that it can read. But, since it does not read PDB format, and there is very little free Bible available for Mobipocket, it cannot serve as one-stop application for both Bible and other materials reading purpose. Installing both Mobipocket and a Bible reader would be an inefficient resource use and is not convenient.

SymbianBible (formerly S60Bible)
Free and opensource Bible reader for Symbian, ported from Palm, and reads Palm Bible+ PDB files. SymbianBible does not read Olive Tree PDB files. Olive Tree reader is slightly better, but this is good enough. Now, can this read other reading materials? Theoretically yes, as long as it is in Bible+ PDB format. But there is scarce information as how to create one. There is only information, i.e., the one in BibleConverter. BibleConverter is a Java program from Palm Bible+ that will convert a specially tagged text file into PDB file readable by Bible+. I tried creating PDB file using BibleConverter, but for unknown reasons the resulting file are often unrecognized by SymbianBible.

Other prominent e-book reader is Plucker, though opensource and has tools for MacOS X, but lacks Symbian support.

MOTOROLA HACKER’S BIBLE
http://www.mobile-review.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=16917

Symbian UIQ Users Site
http://machman.gotdns.com

Motocoder
http://www.motocoders.com/