You've got a choice: either Nokia do it all for you/us (in which case you wouldn't have the device, and it'd cost what a Newton cost, not what an N800 costs), or they can leave stuff open for third parties to fill the gaps for what people want.

I much prefer the latter approach. Only the former makes any sense if you want "just dump data on and things happen magically". FWIW, I've never had particularly good synchronisation from *any* groupware product to Psions/Palms/mobile phones, but I accept that some people do seem to be happy with it. In fact, in many ways, the offline viewing that GPE Calendar on Maemo gives me (of both my Google Calendar and my Outlook data) is probably the best mobile calendar experience I've ever had. Do I wish GPE Calendar were faster and had a slick UI like Dates? Yes. Am I glad that Nokia didn't spend the time on it and delay releasing the 770 14 months ago? Also yes.

OutLink sounds interesting - I'd not heard of it before. Perhaps some publicity would be useful (e.g. on maemo-developers) and linking it up with the OpenSync port which (just) needs a GUI. However...

...is just trolling. No-one can take it if they don't know about it.

Cheers,

Andrew