sordoros,

At present you can try GPE Calendar for Maemo. Sync with Outlook is done via 3rd party Funambol flavor server called Scheduleworld. The process is partly described here(bottom of the page):
http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...t:Outlook_Sync
You could also make things work by running a Funambol server on your pc with some minor tweaks.
The question of whether GPE Calendar gives you enough play remains open. In fact, I will be installing it tomorrow on RDA to see if it makes me happy.

S60 is left to something like SBSH Calendar with Funambol or AquaCalendar with a custom plugin for Outlook. Both are not mature enough yet. SBSH has some potential though.

Things are gradually progressing but need time. Give it a year and see...

edit: As far as the best around - it has been Windows Mobile + Pocket Informant and not Palm for a long time now.

ppppppppppp,

Have you used a BlackBerry recently (Pearl 8900 or something)? What are your thoughts, or issues with the PIM?

Noting that RIM's PIM suite is quite "the industry standard" (as much as I hate that term), but noting what you like or dislike could maybe help focus the development of the current PIM suite.

That being said, I'm not saying anyone would potentially listen to you, I'm just hoping we can move the conversation into a more beneficial thread enumerating a list of features that would be requested, with concrete examples. This will be a lot easier to sell to a PM rather than just hoping they will get it right, if we do not provide them with feedback.

Thanks,

i hope that the n900 doesnt sync with outlook the way that the e90 does.


when you enter a new address on the e90, it shows up in out look as follows:

from e90:

123 Main Street
Sarasota, Fl. 08080
USA

in Outlook:

123 Main Street
08080 Sarasota Fl.
USA


so then you have to manually go into every contact and fix the zip formating to the end so that it will map correctly on your pc and show correctly when printed or printing address labels.

CrashandDie,

Below are the most significant threads that give enough info which you could organize into something like www.htcclassaction.org against Nokia.

Community threads:
Started in 2005 and still going:
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/...cending&page=1
Started in 2007 and still going:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum...t=56823&page=1

Suggestion for Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 on betalabs.nokia.com:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/3391
and a little more here:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/3211

There had been a couple of suggestions on www.symbian.com until it was scraped by Nokia.

Post from developer.symbian.org:
http://developer.symbian.org/forum/s...ead.php?t=1941
Required features and possible solutions are at the bottom of the page.

A lot of posts on category sync with S60 found on SBSH Forums:
http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showforum=48

Alex is the founder of Pocket Informant.
Here's his take on porting Pocket Informant for Nokia:
http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forum...howtopic=15469

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BlackBerry's success has everything to do with their mail client as well as the right timing in sales compaigns focused on qwerty keyboard tied in with marginal enterprise support back in the day. Otherwise there'd been never anything special about BlackBerry.
Best PIM for BlackBerry is, guess what, Pocket Informant that has been recently ported.
A paragraph on how BB version compares to WM version can be found at the bottom of the following page:
http://www.pocketinformant.com/produ...etinformant_bb

Enjoy the eternal Nokian ignorance.

You want to organize a class action lawsuit against Nokia for not supporting your precious little colors? Seriously?

GTFO.

Woah, be nice. (Although suing does seem rather over the top to me, too).

Hahahah,

I sense too many blind-deaf-mute followers around.
Do i want to sue Nokia? - No.
Do i think Nokia should be sued for whatever reason? - I certainly do - great opportunities for day traders.
Hence, i'm giving suggestions that someone "could" or "should" do so.
Do i want to buy a Nokia device? - Yes, for a long time now
Can i buy a Nokia device? - No, i can't because of all the blind-deaf-mute Nokia PIM devs that don't want to listen
Have a click around the links i provided - see how many people are asking and for how long.

...Anyhow, where are Nokia's PIM people? Is anyone coming out for a chat or what?

Mostly Nokians keep to themselves, exactly because they don't want to deal with stuff like this.

Please understand that most corporations don't work on a "as-asked for" basis. Decisions of what to develop are done based on market needs, and what project/product managers believe is the best way to go. I can't say for sure this is how Nokia work, but I suspect they are driven by points which have been made a long time back, and you can't expect them to change their roadmap just because you're yelling about it.

As I said earlier, being constructive, and not attacking everyone based on your frustration will make you a lot more audible than the ranting/yelling you have been showcasing since you've joined. Create an enhancement request on bugzilla, discuss it there whilst remaining courteous and understanding.

Please understand that we are all trying to make this platform better, and your wishes aren't anyone's command. Yes, you might think that what you are asking for is excruciatingly important, but honestly, if it was, do you honestly believe they would've missed it? If you believe Nokia has made a mistake by ignoring this feature, I don't believe anyone minds you enlightening us, but please, do it an effective and non-disruptive manner.

I hope you can appreciate that with your current behaviour, the only thing you will achieve is the alienation of anyone who might be helpful to you at one point or another.

Fanboys, fanboys...
Hahahaha.
Why do i say fanboys - because you take it personally.
Hahah.
At least i'll get some laughs out of this...

CONstructive times on the subject were gone circa 2007.
People reported bugs (on scraped symbian.com)
People had lengthy time wasting email conversations with customer support.
People started 5 year long threads.
All with no result.
And by no result i mean utter silence. No yes. No no. No may be.

DEstructive is what it is now.
The only strategy left is to pour as much dirt as possible into the official forums so that search results start looking scary.
And no, noone interested is expecting for this to get resolved any time soon.
These interested people are now mostly using WM devices and check this scene once in a while just to make sure things are at the same convoluted spot.

The most recent example comes from Ovi Suite section of betalabs.nokia.com:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/forums/nok...n/views/down/1
The link is a list of all suggestions Nokia received for Ovi Suite sorted by the amount of views. My category support suggestion falls well within the first 10. If you sort by comments - within first 15.
At the same time no dev comments were received.
And, guess what, it "graduated from beta"...

Hi,
I found this thread really interesting. I've got just a question (is an old fear from previous bad PC Suite experiences):
about your experience with N900, is PC Suite able to fully sync Contacts without break them or data loss?
I mean, for example, the fact they don't support the field "telephone2" (is just an example) so this value is not synced and, in addition, losed after a PC <=> N900 sync.

Another question is how PC Suite is able to bind contacts from N900 to Outlook. If you consider a contact in Outlook, you can have, for example, only 3 email fields: email1, email2, email3 (a perfect data model! )
In N900 you can have virtually infinite email fields. So when I have a contact with 4 email address how does sync behave?
What happens to email4? I loose the data when I do N900 => PC => N900 back?

Thank you for support
Andrea