There is NO voice dialing on N900, so phone will never prompt you for the name. This is one missing functionality that I really regret. Hope there will be third party app that will save the day ;-) About beeps - it is known issue with some Nokia headsets(BH-103, BH-102). It is resolved in PR1.2.. I have BH-103, but due to this problem bought BH-214 which is better and works flawlessly.