[maemo-users] Starter Tips

[From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:27:15PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> sean wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > 	I just purchased a used N800, and it arrived a little earlier today.
> > Just looking for any real user tips as to get the most out of the device?
> > 
> > I hope that it can replace my aging palm as best as possible, but I have 
> > read of the lack of built in PIM, GPE seems to be a common recommendation.
> 
> The built-in PIM apps are primitive in the extreme: it's astonishing 
> that anyone could have felt they were releasable, but Nokia conceived of 
> the device as a web tablet instead of a PDA or even just a pocket computer.

Make sure you are using GPE contacts.  I thought the built-in one *was* 
gpe contacts and found it pretty useless.  I posted a number of rather 
confusing messages about the perceived flaws of GPE contacts before 
somebody figured out what I was doing and steered me right.  Now I have 
contacts in both applications and it's a mess.

-- hendrik