Funambol goes Android
By Dusan Belic on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 9:27 AM PST In Announcements, Linux, Services

Provider of open-source push-email and mobile sync solutions, Funambol, announced its sync app for the Android G1 phone. The Funambol Android Client syncs contacts from a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gPhone with a Funambol Server.
Funambol Android Client provides an open source Mobile’We’ capability for gPhones to make it easy for users to sync and share contacts from other mobile phones as well as from popular desktop apps such as MS Outlook and webmail such as Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL. The software was developed by the Funambol community, which demonstrates the speed at which an open source development model can support the latest mobile handsets versus proprietary approaches.
Funambol Android Client should be available through Android Market in the near future. Alternatively, you can grab the early version from the Funambol Forge. Future releases will add support for syncing mobile content such as calendars and push email…

