I finally coughed up the dough and bought an iMate for $600 thinking it will help improve my productivity! Instead Microsoft has, once again, made my life a living hell - the active sync application just keeps hanging and giving me a "Server is busy" error each time I try and sync. The sync success rate has been ~4% - 96% of my Sync efforts have resulted in the same error. The one thing MS software has is unparalleled consistency - No matter how many times I try and reboot the phone and the laptop - the error remains the same!!! I've looked at various MS forums and this is a "known" issue that is "Currently being worked on". So any OSS apps out there that takes me away from the MS-Hell would be much appreciated.