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So, it's not a month later but it is a second generation...

note to self: next phone, wait 1 month before purchasing after release. not sure if this is possible.

I suppose the BlackJack II was second gen too. :)
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Hey Omar,

Heres a suggestion for yourself or someone on the Live Hotmail team. Build an iphone app that integrates your Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Hotmail on the iphone.

Right now my "islands of information" are stuck in the Microsoft cloud and dont integrate them nicely with the iphone. Yahoo and Gmail already have their apps in order. Hopefully Microsoft can offer its customers a similar experience. I know Pop mail is coming soon, now i just have to figure out how to get my Live Contacts into the iphone without a cumbersome procedure.

Craig, one way of doing that is to grab the Outlook Connector from the Microsoft download center and sychronise Windows Live Contacts to Outlook. Then synchronise the iPhone with Outlook (you may have to copy the contacts into the Outlook contact store, its a while since I used it).

Thanks Chris.
Ive also figured out a 2nd method. Unencrypting my live messenger contacts which creates Windows Contacts then telling itunes to sync to Windows Contacts.

I just wanted to strongly second Craig's suggestion for building a Windows Live Hotmail and Contacts solution for iPhone. What Chris described here *WAS* my plan for syncing my Windows Live Hotmail Plus contacts with iPhone. (Using Outlook Connector to sync Windows Live Hotmail and Contacts to Outlook, and then syncing Outlook with iPhone.) However this does not work. After every sync, my iPhone contacts are empty. I think this has to do with the fact that the Connector files are stored somewhere different than the regular Outlook contacts, and iTunes cannot find them. But I don't know enough about how this works to help iTunes find them or to change the storage settings in Outlook. As for the Hotmail access, I finally found Omar's article on the subject and tried the pop3.live.com and smtp.live.com settings, but I always get a username and password error, even though I have quadruple-checked them for accuracy and case-sensitivity, and I do have the paid Plus Hotmail account.

I really want this to work, but after literally spending the whole weekend on hours of research and no solutions I am thinking about abandoning Hotmail altogether. It's been pretty frustrating to see the seamless iPhone support for Google and Yahoo and to have to jump through all of these hoops to stay with Hotmail. It shouldn't be this hard! That's what makes iPhone appealing in the first place: a well designed end-to-end customer experience.

why cant somebody build a small hotmail App for the iphone?? Guys is it so difficult? Please somebody build it and post it on the App store, that would save all our lives.

Thanks