I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this post, so please move it if necessary.

I'm a n00b with maemo and the n900 (just bought mine), but I'm a veteran linux user and Qt developer. The Nokia/Qt relationship was the main reason I bought this phone!

Anyhow, I'm fairly frustrated with the contacts organziation on the device. Although I can see all of my google contacts from the phone application, I can only call them by initiating a google voice call.

I have 2 main questions:

1. Is it possible to make a normal phone call to someone in my google contacts list?

2. Is there any way to conglomerate my contacts so that I have one entry per name regardless of the source for the contact.

It's very annoying to have 5 entries for one person:

Santa Claus ( Google voice number for home )
Santa Claus ( Google voice number for mobile )
Santa Claus ( Google voice number for office )
Santa Claus ( Google email contact )
Santa Claus ( Maemo contact )

Perhaps there is a way to import contacts?!?


By the way, I really like idea of Maemo and the N900. Sometimes it's a bit frustrating to getting things to function right, but that's par for the course for a fairly young linux distro...

Keep up the hard work Maemo community!