Sync iPhone w/ Google Calendar and Contacts 0
In my everpresent quest to find the perfect mobile device, I have recently upgraded my iPhone 2G to an iPhone 3G. The connection speed isn’t what I expected, but it is still the best platform for mobile application development on the market in my opinion, at least until Android and Andorid’s hardware matures some.Anyway, the one thing that has bothered me is the inability for the iPhone to sync with the Google “cloud”. Yes, it has decent Gmail support now, but contact and calendar sync doesn’t exist, until now. In step the heroes from NuevaSync. They have built a service that uses the iPhone Exchange push/sync support to beautifully trick the iPhone into thinking it’s sync’ing with an Exchange server, which is actually a wrapper around your Google account setup. And, another great feature, you can sync contacts, email, and the calendar all from separate Google accounts, including Google Apps accounts.
The service works flawlessly for me so far. If things change I’ll report back.
The only downside to this is the drain on the battery. If I leave the phone set to receive pushed data, the battery is practically dead by the end of the business day. That’s not a big deal since I’m in front of a PC all day. I just keep it plugged in some and that remedies the problem.
Great service! Highly recommended.
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