Ovi Suite, please list features you want.

Question

Well, actually I posted a few new features I want for the next version of Ovi Suite in the Nokia BetaLabs suggestion site. Most people seem to find this place more, accessible, so I was wondering if maybe I could just incorporate your "wants" into my own letter. Of course bugs are a different story, since I am composing a feature request. If you need bug reports, I'll make another thread.
Basically what I sent already are:
1. Give Ovi Suite it's own calendar. I would understand if you guys have trouble making the suite sync the phone with different calendar applications like Outlook and others (MS is not Nokia, so...), but what if there was a function in the Ovi Suite itself that syncs with Outlook, making an "Ovi Calendar" function, and that would be the one to sync into the phone?
2. Ovi Suite should be able to access Ovi Store. It is pretty tedious to send links to the phone when using Ovi Store on the PC. Why not just let Ovi Suite be a direct link to Ovi Store to install into the phone the apps we want? Not all people have access to mobile internet. I do, but I find using the phone for mobile downloads and installations tedious as the phone does have its own limitations.
3. Ovi suite should also be able to keep a library of installer of apps we download through the store, or extract apps we have on the phone. There are times that we may have to do resets and reformats of our phone, and it is tedious to redownload everything again.
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Answer 1

1. Private messages, photos, and contacts being flaunted for all to see. Get away from this poorly poorly poorly thought out interface.
2. Start up splash screen up for a minute if OVI has trouble signing in.  Make OVI start up fast!  Give us control over the time-out times.
3. Exceedingly long timeouts on updates if server not found (and timeouts in general, and not being able to do anything else while waiting) - get them into check.
4. Newly sent messages do not show in conversations once sent *from OVI itself*.  You have to sync first. I mean, come on!
5. Descent reports on sync - not just the recent changes!  Where do I adjust what OVI considers recent?  What about from the last sync?
6. Software slow in general - option to turn off the animation of the interface and skip to the end result?  I don't want pretty, I want WORKING.
7. On sync, certain contacts' messages displayed as sent by phone number, not the contact (possibly contact recently changed), but all is well after reboot (possibly)
8. We want to select the outlook folders we want to sync with - /t5/Nokia-Ovi-Suite/OVI-Suite-and-PC-Suite-What-about-professional-environments/td-p/575256
I recall a previous OVI sync that reported a list of changes when syncing contacts.  This showed the old contact information and what it changed it to.  It was also a whole lot more configurable as to what folders in Outlook it should sync with.  This could be used to maintain a different outlook folder of contacts you want to sync to your phone.  This seems to be gone now.
OVI tries to sign into Nokia on startup, so if there is a net connection available, it will hang in the startup splash screen until it times out (that takes up to 60 seconds).  With the entry level computer being ten times as powerful as the UK weather supercomputer of ten years ago, one would think that a big company like Nokia could write something a little more responsive?  I'm pretty sure Nokia's drive is to stay current with Visual Studio 2010 and .net framework 3.5, but that tendency has lead to the complete downfall of most.  Just keep to what works in old code until you have thoroughly tested the new platform internally to the company!
I don't even know why I raise my voice here because everyone knows we are all beta testers for the big companies.  Except, most users don't have the patience to come here and plead for better software, so it's up to the few masochists that we are to shout to the giant and hope we are heard - all in vain.
At least I got a response from Nokia (saylinen) from the last one, inquiring about my issue with OVI displaying messages with phone numbers only.
The messages displayed the right senders from the contacts list after a reboot.  But I'm not prepared to reboot after a sync just to help OVI get back on track!  The minute wait in the splash screen on startup if OVI can't sign in?  Private messages and photos being flaunted all over your screen in the OVI "home" interface?  It's ridiculous!
I've read a problem from another user that contacts are lost when syncing?  If you follow my post, mail me, I want to list your problem and shout to the bad giant called Nokia.
Nokia, none of us are happy with what you are doing with the software.  We want a little 4 megabyte or so app, that launches in less than 100 ms, and instantly shows everything we can access from the phone, on our PCs, IF we drill into it.  Why not show a tree starting with contacts, messages, photos, videos, and music, and when we drill down to them we can see filenames, creation dates, last accessed dates, and size?
And while things are idle, why not use the idle time (if option selected in options) to start syncing?  Transfer the newest stuff first!  And do it to a buffer directory, so it's all local on our PCs when we choose to update?  OR auto update IF the option is selected?  Give us options!
But first and foremost, give us access that's fast and responsive?
The idea of separating it into phone and computer is also good.  But make the phone alive!  If we browse the phone, we want to see what's on there NOW.  Not since the last time we pressed sync!
Come on guys, you've had a few years of writing phone software by now.  It's time to start getting it right!
Found the same request for outlook folder selection in this thread: /t5/Nokia-Ovi-Suite/OVI-Suite-and-PC-Suite-What-about-professional-environments/td-p/575256
Regards
Chris Bosch
N79, Win XP on Compaq 6710b, and Win 7 on i7 Maximus III Gene mobo