These replies are really helpful. I'm impressed by just how much thought Nokia has put into this device around power saving and alarms. I've been thinking so much about working around them and doing better only because previous Linux handhelds I looked at did not do this good a job.

I can think of several Linux PDAs where alarms wouldn't fire if the device was off. So you were forced to leave the machine on in order to get alarms, but the power consumption was so great you'd be lucky to get 6 hrs of run time!

So what you've been telling me is starting to sink in

Nokia has done it right, and I probably won't need to spend cycles trying to improve on their work here.