gnokii allows you to communicate with the phone over the serial cable connection, usb connection (support depends mostly on the operatins system level support), infrared connection and bluetooth connection.
gnokii provides many functionality of different areas for user to manipulate mobile phone.
You can send SMS, receive them and save them in the phone. gnokii supports delivery reports, picture messages (Nokia own protocol), concatenated messages, wap pushes, unicode messsages. gnokii allows you to send and receive logos and ringtones over SMS.
gnokii offers you possibility to read and write phonebook. Phonebook entries can be displayed in human readable form or can be exported to comma separated output, vCard version 3.0 format or ldif format. You can import data from the same formats. Please note, that supported phonebook entries depend on the phone features and therefore may not be all imported.
gnokii supports either calendar or todo lists. gnokii is capable to export calendar to iCal files and import them from the same format. Most calendar features like different types of events, recurrence, start and end times are supported.
You can initiate and answer calls with gnokii.
Source: gnokii
More features than the PC Suite and it’s open source … Nokia I can’t emphasize enough how bloat-tastic the PC Suite is. These guys had to work some magic to reverse engineer your protocol, and amazingly they’re using it better than you guys are! Burnnn