@James174 you will probably label me a Nokia apologist etc but your post interests me. The basic features you talk about are basic for your Symbian and S40 devices. The telephone feature is brand new in Maemo and does not seem to be the absolute focus over at Nokia. The real issue is the branding nightmare that Nokia is intent in immersing themselves in. They should never have branded this an "N" anything and simply sold it as an Internet Tablet with 3G data. The second they branded as a phone, users like you hopped on the train and bought the device and are now shocked that what you consider basic functionality is "missing".

Some of us have been using these tablets (maemo) for years and I'm pretty impressed with what they have evolved to. They have never had any type of syncing before. They had a terrible contacts app and no calendar at all, IM was ok but not excellent, Skype was a standalone application. The only time to ever connect them to a pc was to reflash the software which once Diablo came along with "over the air" OS updating was also not needed. For many of us we considered the tablets to be mini-pc standalone devices. The only thing I ever plug my 'phone' into a pc for, is tranferring music to the 32 GB internal and to charge it.

I still think of my N900 as a standalone device whereas there are now many users who think of it as a phone like an iPhone or N97 which are designed to be managed from a pc and want an ovi suite/itunes application. This is not a bad thing but something that Nokia marketing should have tried to focus on when they introduced the N900. I'm sorry that you don't have the functionality you need and hope that Nokia releases software that will help you out or that someone develops it from the community.