Who will build the bridge between KDE and the Palm Pre?

For years now, users of both, KDE and Palm PDA devices and smartphones, myself included, have enjoyed the best integration and data synchronization services available. Our tool of choice: KPilot as the backend for the pilot-link toolkit.
All was well and we all could have slept on happily ever after in hibernation.

But as times moved on without mercy, on came the iPhone, Google Android and all those other shiny new handsets, that bit by bit stole the shine of all that Palm had to offer.

And while KDE users in our blissful ignorance where still happy to have a synchronzation solution that just worked, Palm finally had no other option left, but to reinvent and change everything about itself, if we liked it or not.

For Palm the Pre is a matter of life and death and with the new WebOS and all of its great new features and improvements, survival even seems possiblle for now.

But gone is good old PalmOS and with it all that made pilot-link and KPilot possible. With the userbase of PalmOS set to phase out someday, KPilot is going to be left with no device to support.

Anything on the horizon to step in and build the bridge between KDE and the Palm Pre? Sorry, not yet.

The promising akonadi-google, in direct comparison to Kpilot, is still just that, promising. Looking to the KDE support for other handset platforms, things only get worse, you name the device.

If KDE developers do not solve this situation fast, soon fewer and fewer smartphone users will want to become KDE users.

Beware!

werner habel, kde, kpilot, palm pre, iphone, android, akonadi-google