I guess you didn't see my point. With Newton Connection Utilities, you could synchronize important data from your PC/Mac directly to your Newton. There was no piecemeal "use X for the calendar, Y for the contacts, and Z for the todos" needed; it just gathered simple, vital data up and transferred it to the device, with no effort. Uh, yeah, didn't the HPC/PalmPC/PocketPC/Psion perform this simple duty, years ago? Don't all cellphones created after 2001 (or so) do this? Even my old Nokia 6340i cell, from 2001 did this.

By the way, the last time I used GPE calendar, the buttons were all messed up on the bottom - is it still that way? I also liked the simplicity of the 'Dates' app, but there was a bug in it, that didn't show the dates from December 2006, so I dumped it.

I have tried Google Calendar, and I currently have all of my 'home' calendar items in there. Problem is, I get meeting requests at work in Outlook, so I have to manually copy them to Google. Then I have to view them on the 770 with Minimo, not Opera, because Opera won't render Google Calendar, and Minimo will.

Oh, and by the way, I work at a global corporation, where we have to use Outlook+Office. We do not have the luxury of setting up an Evolution server, (whatever that is) or ScheduleWorld to distribute this data.

I have already written a simple freeware program called OutLink that is available somewhere on this website, that extracts your Outlook data into an XML file. Can't anybody take that free software and figure out a way to get it populated into the complicated labyrinth of folders and data within Linux Maemo/Debian? I guess not.

I mean, come on, even my 'old' iPod can synchronize contacts and calendar items, and it is a friggin' jukebox!