@ RobbH : I'm not able to find anything in my users manual about alarms other than what is offered with the clock.

There is nothing legalistic about what The General is trying to convey to you. You made a lot of assumptions over what the iT could do, and now you're complaining about all the things you THOUGHT it SHOULD do, but doesn't. Did you try out the device before you bought it? Did you visit any iT forums, read any reviews before you bought it? I did, and I'm sure a number of people here did as well.

Ohhh, you want schedule alarms? Guess what, both my Sony Ericsson K800i and my Nokia E51 do that, along with calendaring, task management, address book, and hey, even syncing! And push email works as well.

I'm not even a loyal N800 user like you are. I'm a gadget slut and have my hands on all kinds of gadgets when I can. There are things that my iPaq does better than my N800 and the converse is also true. The N800 just works for me when it comes to certain things. For its price, I never expected it to be able to do anything and everything possible on a Linux machine

Use the right tool for the job -- don't buy a hammer and then complain that it does a lousy job of spreading butter on bread, because you assumed that just because it looked like it could dip into butter and had a handle that it would make a really nice butter knife.