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#129
Originally Posted by Bingley Joe View Post
Yeah, I've noticed that as well. It's a bit disappointing that the N900 won't display custom labels, as I find them immensely useful for some of my contacts who have a wide variety of phone numbers where I can reach them.

It's inconsistent too -- for instance, it's smart enough to know what a FAX number is and label it "Unsupported" (which is a bit odd - it could just show "FAX" but refuse to dial - but still somewhat logical).. why won't it recognize a fully custom label?

The fact that it then tries to override them on the Mac side though is quite maddening.
ISync does not seem to expose those custom labels via SyncML anyways, so even if the N900 would support them, they would not synchronize.

So since the N900 does not know about them, if you change such an entry on the N900, how is ISync supposed to know whether you just changed the number or the number and the custom label?

The (sad) truth is: Synchronization will only work properly if both sides talk the same language. In order to achieve this, there are standard formats like vcard (for contacts) and vcal/ics (for calendar). Custom labels and multiple calendars are unfortunately not part of those standard formats