Yet another piece of crap released by RIM

Well based on the way the internet forums are blasting away at RIM its obvious.   This is just a shinny spiffed up version of pocketcrap.  Well, you can shine a turd all you want but its still turd.
There are way too many problems with this software for anyone at RIM with half a brain to have thoroughly tested it.
Now we see post from people "representing" RIM that say "we know about the issue and it will be fixed in future updates", hey that's great.  It only took you 8 years to put this piece of crap out how long should it take to fix it?  By then there should be smartphones that can actually sync....oh wait there are there are options. 
here are my issues with this software:
1) duplicate entries in the calendar (not on the mac just the BB).  They are random and not consistent.   I just scrolled through my calendar and found at least 30 duplicates.    Solution?
2) Duplicate contacts appearing.
3) Format of the contacts in address book aren't consistent.  Names are dropped, groupings are dropped, numbers are deleted.  Hmmm.  how about a solution?
4)  Ever since the "update" to OS 4.5 the available memory has plumetted on my BB.  I used to be lucky and get 19.6 now I'm at 15.1.  That's great.  And before you jump ugly, I have already deleted all the applications that DM would allow me to delete.  Still no improvement.  I suppose I should pull the battery every hr on the hr to make sure the memory improves.
So let's hear it for RIM and their wonderful tech support!! Great job!! Let's keep up the good work!!  Perhaps one day the tech support people could actually read the boards and put together a complete list of issues/bugs and solutions..... THAT ACTUALLY WORK!!!

im not a rim expert but everything went smoothly
this is what i did to avoid dupcicates
I CLICKED THE "MERGE" DATA OPTION! 

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