RSSGoogle launches Sync for iPhone and Windows Mobile
By Tim Conneally | Published February 9, 2009, 1:44 PM
Google has released a tool that allows Google calendar and Gmail contact data to be synced with iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. Similar to the Blackberry application Google released last year, Google Sync integrates a user's Google calendar data with the phone's native calendar. It also works with Google Apps accounts, but administrator approval must first be granted.
There are currently some limitations to the application. The iPhone, for example, cannot sync more than five calendars, and contact information cannot hold multiple numbers for fax, mobile, or pager headings, and each contact is limited to 3 email addresses.
When I enable gmail imap on my winmo, the phone's battery is cut in half, and it crashes frequently. I'm also prompted for a password sometimes randomly.
I had to turn it off.
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|I'm a little shocked that Apple or Microsoft signed off on this. Isn't this guaranteed to cost them Exchange and MobileMe business? The listed limitations are not an issue for most people.
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|Why does Apple need to sign off on this? Its a service that isnt limited to the iPhone. Sounds to me MS makes money off the licensing and Google likes the syncing to all the devices.
Apple has little say as it uses MS exchange server support.
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|We went to iphone company-wide after Apple signed the licensing agreement. The iphone works better than Microsoft's own devices for getting mail--That is a fact.
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|Yeah I just read about it
http://www.livecrunch.co...iphone-and-other-phones/
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|And Nueva is bummed. They took too long to create a revenue maker with this idea and google swooped in and took it.
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