Yup come to think of it for contacts syncing Hotmail had issues with MfE (fixed now) and now Google MfE will have issues too so a Nokia account, the most berated account type, is actually the most reliable solution...


Edit: The above of course excludes setting-up your own solution which would be the theoretically best solution... Also some re-collection reminds me that Hotmail when having MfE issues it was with the Mail not with the Contacts/Calendar sync... My n900 still is able to sync contacts from Hotmail using MfE so yeah M$ are unreliable but its been a number of years and contact+calendar sync still work reliably...