No more bluetooth - phone in address book?

Can I reactivate the bluetooth connection from addressbook to my phone via blue tooth? From what I can find this feature has been removed, is this true??
If the feature has been removed, can I downgrade my OS back to tiger or do I have to totally reinstall? (and ask for my money back for the useless upgrade to leopard?)

Yes, it is true that the Bluetooth features of Address Book have been removed. It's been commented on a few times already:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196696
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195981
There is no way to "re-activate" this feature because it simply does not exist anymore in Leopard.
If you feel so strongly about this, send feedback to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
If the only thing you use your Mac for is for connecting to your phone via Bluetooth, and all the other new features are "useless" - why did you upgrade?

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I have tried looking around for help, but haven't found anything. I would appreciate it if anyone could help me with this.
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thats the address you can get a free trial
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