Love this phone(or more appropriately “used to love”), because it used to do task “rarest in its times”.

I could use any public WiFi hotspots (My Office and my home included) and route my calls through the internet, and costing me guess what – $0 (To be precise I paid $10 for TMobile@Home service.) So I could talk non-stop to all the hot chicks!! Lol!

However since yesterday it started to show signs of aging.

Long story short, I was searching for a synchronizer using bluetooth. Nokia only makes PC Suite. I have a Mac. And Mac has iSync which is not compatible with Nokia 6086.

Two Google searches later, here is the solution that worked for me. Here is what I did.

Edit the following file using any editor of your choice. I use Textmate (therefore mate), you can use Vi, Emac, nano, or “I’m still a fan of Charles Babbage” editor:

sudo mate /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/MetaClasses.plist

Add the following code right after 6021 entry.

<key>com.nokia.6086</key>
<dict>
        <key>Identification</key>
        <dict>
                <key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm</key>
                <string>Nokia+Nokia 6086</string>
                <key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
                <string>Nokia+Nokia 6086</string>
        </dict>
        <key>InheritsFrom</key>
        <array>
                <string>family.com.nokia.series40.bus.bt</string>
        </array>
        <key>Services</key>
        <array>
                <dict>
                        <key>ServiceName</key>
                        <string>com.apple.model</string>
                        <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>ModelIcon</key>
                                <string>NOK6086.tiff</string>
                                <key>ModelName</key>
                                <string>6086</string>
                        </dict>
                </dict>
                <dict>
                        <key>ServiceName</key>
                        <string>com.apple.synchro</string>
                        <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>MaxEMailLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                                <key>MaxNotesLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                                <key>MaxURLLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                        </dict>
                </dict>
        </array>
</dict>

Download this file and copy it into the following location using cp command.

sudo cp NOK6086.tiff    /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/

Now bite your nails twice, touch the sacred Aluminum and pray to the chairman God.

WooHoo!! We are ready to synchronize our address book.

Once imported into Address Book, I created an archive of address book with date.

And then I gulped down a glass of milk and resumed watching the movie Amu…….