Ah - your comment was useful and perhaps I can add my own.

I own a Sony/Ericsson M600i running Symbian UIQ3.0. This phone syncs with Outlook Express (but it's poor - SO poor... Outlook, I mean...) on XP.

Well anyway - I connected self-same phone to a (relatively old?!? Me think not) Athlon XP2000+, Socket A, USB2.0 M/B running openSuse 10.3.

Now what happens is that in the Phone's File Manager mode the 1GB Memory Card Micro plug-in memory module is made available to the PC and I can transfer files back and forth. Cannot yet synchronise anything else (Contacts/ e-mail/ texts etc. - Time constraints, as ever).

This makes me think that even if I cannot sync any contact information from the K850i I would probably be able to transfer photos - and that would be sufficient given the 5MP camera.

So now I'm adding the k850i to the wishlist.

Apologies to K850i users for mentioning the use of a M600i... which do not is having none camera functionality at all (and it's a 3G phone!).

Cheers.
Mike