Pulled down the 2.0.2 update yesterday. I’m out of my usual territory so I can’t yet tell what effect if any there will be back home, but here in Boulder CO I get “No Service” as soon as I switch 3G on, and full bars with 3G off.

Battery life does seem somewhat improved, even though it still sucks overall.

Still trying to get rid of Outlook entirely. Almost there.

Mail - gMail and IMAP access on the iPhone with the built-in Mail application.

Calendar - gCal on the PC and the iPhone Calendar app with real-time over-the-air sync via NuevaSync. NuevaSync seems to work pretty damn well.

Tasks - Remember The Milk (RTM) and Appigo’s Todo in the iPhone, which has over-the-air (but not real-time) sync. Would be great if this was RT, but in the meantime, it’s awesome.

Contacts - Outlook, with Anagram and a few AutoHotKey (AHK) hacks. The iPhone’s Contacts app sync’s to Outlook when I plug it in, which is often enough. But, since all my contacts are in Outlook, I can’t get to them remotely… For this, I do a once-in-a-while upload/sync of Outlook to Google Contacts. Clearly, it would be better to ditch Outlook entirely and just use gContacts itself, which NuevaSync will apparently sync to the iPhone as well. The main thing holding me back from this is that with Anagram and AHK I have one-key access to my contact database on the PC. Even if I give up Anagram for getting new contacts into the database, gContacts is lacking some major usability features - buried inside gMail w/ no direct access, no contact photos, no notes, no birthdays, etc. Alternatively, I could keep Outlook as the main database and UI, and use Kigoo to sync to gContacts (and NuevaSync to sync from there to the iPhone). Update: I managed to install Kigoo, but it just crashes Outlook. No surprise there.

Why is there no equivalent of IMAP for contacts???