More Bugs, More cool features, still unsure

This phone is full of surprises. Every day it has a couple of them for me.

Two more days, three more bugs. One of them terribly annoying, the other one very minor.

• Yesterday I synced my N93 with Microsoft Outlook again (via USB), and suddenly it gave me a really awful and technically sounding error (something with a strange thread id + a couple of hex numbers) and just quit and disconnected from the PC. The worst thing about it was that I configured it to sync immediately after connecting via the USB cable (which is the default and makes sense), and that I can't change the sync settings if the phone is not connected. Which means that the normal thing to do (change the sync settings to get it to work somehow) was a tricky stunt to pull off - the phone will connect after being plugged in, run into the error immediately, and disconnect before you can change the sync settings. But finally I did it! (after about 45 minutes of frustration).
  Frankly, the last thing I need to have in a day full of meetings is my mobile phone pulling off stunts like this one. Sync needs to work. Period.
  The question remains: should I spend my precious time worrying about sync bugs? I think not.
  Then I was on the verge of just returning my N93.
• Second bug: tomorrow morning my phone told me that I've lost one or more appointments because of a changed time zone.
  What???
• AAC playback limitation: another problem that I find strangely irritating why the phone just can't play AAC files properly. The feature list says "MP3, AAC playback", and yes, it does actually play AAC files (the non-DRM kind - I'm sure the ones I bought on the iTunes music store are restricted to iPods). You go to the file explorer, click on an AAC file, and it plays it. Good. The integrated music player, however, simply ignores all the .m4a files on the mini SD card and only shows MP3 files. Very irritating.
  

Oh well, but there were also a couple of unexpected moments of joy :-)

• For example when I found out that there's a "Shredder Mobile" now, which runs beautifully on my N93, and allows me to play a great game of chess whenever I want, wherever I want. And with the 300+ MHz of the N93's processor, Shredder Mobile is a great opponent. And it was extremely easy to install and works great.
  
• The PC software includes a nice backup software that allows to backup all data stored in the phone on my PC. And it even worked :-)

So, should you buy the Nokia N93? I frankly don't know. But I do know that other than the reviews that I've read in the web to make up my mind are saying, the bulky size and the price are not the biggest concerns about this phone. For me, personally, the biggest problem of the N93 is the long time it takes to find that feature that you've used yesterday in the billion of screens and options in the not too perfectly organized menu system, and the even longer time it takes to work around too many bugs. I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that firmware update tool for the N93.