Yes you can, though you may find the syncml plugin for opensync offers the functionality already (though its stability is questionable).

Not sure if the API is available for the Nokia PC Suite layer...

Hi, I don't know if this is of any help to anyone, but I was just trying out a few things with the N900 the other day and I managed to transfer all my contacts from my Blackberry Pearl 8120 (Yes, a Blackberry) via Bluetooth to the N900

All the fields transferred correctly. See screen-shots here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42299489@N08/3895673529
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42299489@N08/3896455044

But the best feature of the Contacts in N900 is that it manages all contacts from the address book and email accounts in a single place.

After setting up my Gmail account on the device and then importing the address book from Blackberry, I ended up with many cases where I had 2 copies of the same person, i.e. one contact containing only the email address and the second contact (for the same person) containing address, phone nos, birthday and other emails addresses.

But with N900, I simply have to select Merge Contact from the menu (see image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42299489@N08/3895675969/)

and it'll allow you to select another contact and it'll merge the details of the 2 contacts and will then automatically delete the other one.


Just my 2 cents!

MaemoGuy

One of the screenshots MaemoGuy posted above shows a "Birthday"-field for a contact.

Do the birthdays finally show up in the calendar? Or is it still the same as with S60 (no info in calendar about birthdays)?

Yes, it does....to my surprise, if you take a look at the screen shot of the Calendar. You'd see little icons of birthday cakes in days which have birthdays. And if you click on it, it'll show you the names of the persons/people who's birthday is on that day.

Cheers

*LOL* for a second I thought you wanted me to click on your screenshot...

but thanks for sharing this information. i could never understand why my S60 phone yould let me enter a person's birthday, but doesn't show it in the calendar.

Tanks MaemoGuy for these infos. ^_^

Can I ask you something, you who have the N900?

Can you post the file obtained by this following Shell command:
Thank you.

I'm also working on something to ensure your contacts are as fully populated as they can be (including birthdays) as automatically as possible.

whlie your at it you could also implement a OVI/ NOKIA maps plug in. if a address is added so you could see little qudratic map as the last item on a contact list, so it won't bother attaining more imortant information. well on this you could only see where the adress is with severall streets, but if your be foot there its enough...since i am useless and cant programm even a microwave

map options maybe different Radius 100m, 500m 1Km and routing options "route me there" "route me from" "show in MAPS".

I doubt they are allowed to this right now as I'm sure that anyone that has the N900 right now is probably under NDA.