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Just got my shiny p990i, and was very disappointed to find out that it does not sync with OSX. Surfing the web, I found some workarounds. These are:

Address book
Go into OSX address book, open the preferences and the vCard pane. Here change the format to 2.1. Highlight the addresses you want to copy to your phone. Now you can use File > Export vCard. Now open the Bluetooth programme > Send File. After the file is transferred to the phone, open that file and you can import all addresses.
Unfortunately, no synching here.

iCal
You have to first download a script, which enables you to export a chosen date range in a format that can be read by the p990. Cumbersome. Download and instructions are here.

We can only hope that Apple will come up with a solution at some point. In the meantime, suggest that Apple do something about it.

I been looking at a bigger monitor to complete our editing suite. So far we´ve been using a 9″ CRT from JVC, which doubles as location monitor. While it gives excellent colours, it is rather small, and does not have the full resolution.

So I did some research, and came up with the JVC TM-H150CG. For good prices in the US, there is of course B&H Photo at 499 USD, and Provantage at 433 USD. Trouble as always when shopping from Europe is the shipping costs. Including those, the monitor would run at 717 USD and 630 USD respectively.

So there comes a bit more surfing, and there I find a friendly french site, PBS Video which have it at 420 EUR (or 540 USD), but shipping is much cheaper, totalling 612 USD. With the added benefit of getting the right plug.