Google Sync Lets Mobile Users Sync up Calendars and Contacts

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Google Sync Lets Mobile Users Sync up Calendars [news.cnet.com] and Contacts

On Monday mobile phone users, including those with Apple's iPhone, got a new way to sync and access information from the cloud. Called Google Sync, the new service lets you sync up both calendars and contacts from a specified Google account and will send changes over the air--both ways.

The service uses Microsoft Exchange's ActiveSync protocol to get the job done, and because of this can actively push changes as soon as they're made. Previously the only way to get this kind of near-instantaneous change was to sync up an existing Exchange account with Outlook using Google's other synchronization utility, Google Calendar Sync. However, that system did not sync contacts and required users to actively run a software client on a machine that had Outlook running.

[google.com...]

Google Sync Service Automates Smartphone Calendar And Contact Updates [searchengineworld.com]

[edited by: engine at 8:51 am (utc) on Feb. 10, 2009]

[mack]

I can see this being good news for businesses, being able to synk and activly push the contacts a person needs when he/she needs then can be vital, but for an indeviduals, is moving your contacts further into the cloud not making them less accesable.

For me personaly I cant think of anything easier than having my phone sync up to outlook using bluetooth as soom as I walk into the house, but for a company with loads of contacts, handsets and computers, this may well be a huge improvement.

Mack.

[Steelbank]

I am having a lot of problems with syncing. Not only does the calender feature not work, but google has included every single email address that has ever sent me an email to my contacts!

In my opinion there are still many things to figure out. I agree with mack, and as much as I would like not to use outlook any longer, it is the most efficient.