Nokia should remember my settings

I got my new Nokia E90 from Vodafone. After leaving it in the back of that limo (bad call) in Las Vegas, I was without my primary number for about two weeks.

I set up the device quickly. I put in the sim card, called Vodafone, got them to activate the sim and bish, bash, bosh, the phone was operational.

Then I walked out the house to a social event arranged by my other half. She was driving so I sat in the car and used Mail For Exchange — which I’d downloaded from Nokia and Bluetoothed from the Apple — to synchronise my entire calendar, contacts, tasks on to the handset.

Perfect.

I *love* the simplicity. OK, so it’s not entirely that simple. I have to remember my rather annoyingly complicated username from Fasthosts and this is something that my mother, certainly, couldn’t be bothered to setup.

But it does work, and beautifully. In fact I have about 8 Nokia devices that are all synchronised in this way. It is genius. If I add a contact or a calendar entry on one device — or on Outlook, for example, it’s immediately synched across all phones.

Mail for Exchange renders me, more or less, device independent. I could use an N73 in the morning, an E61i at lunch and my E90 in the evening — all have the critical address book/calendar data synchronised continually.

But unfortunately we — that is, the industry, or, more precisely, Nokia — hasn’t evolved to the point of synchronisation of handset settings.

It’s a TOTAL ARSE when I try to type ‘Ewan’ with my new E90’s T9 and get two word choices: ‘Exam’ and ‘Exco’.

Surely it’d be quite easy for Nokia to create a .mac style system to take a copy of my phone dictionary and various other settings (themes, that sort of thing) and sync them from handset to handset via the web?

Or — perhaps since most people only get a handset every year (is that more or less still accurate nowadays?) maybe this isn’t such a big deal?