Your mistake was in thinking the n900 was the bees knees. It's not, it's the cat's whiskers.

Sadly, as it is an operating system completely new to most of us, and quite, quite unlike symbian, it cannot be counted on to do anything just 'because all my other nokia phones could'. It can only be counted on to do exactly what it says on the tin.

If this feature is important to you, I suggest that you start a brainstorm for it.