Yepp, you read the heading. I simply love Google’s latest move: The release of a beta version of Google Sync for iPhone, Windows Mobile and Nokia phones on Monday. Yesterday I spent some time cleaning up my addressbook on my Mac, and then synced it up to “the cloud”. That being Gmail.
The new service for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, lets you to get your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone. Once you set up Sync on your phone (which on the iPhone was done in seconds), contacts and schedule will automatically be synchronized in the background, over-the-air. No more USB-cable and perhaps waiting for the battery to go low, so you can sync and charge at the same time. The connection is always on so you don’t have to manually sync your phone after Sync has been set up. Google, has as IBM, licesensed ActiveSync from Microsoft and their Google Sync uses this push technology.
Since Sync is a two-way service, you can make changes on your phone or in your Google Account. Your calendar and contacts are always up-to-date, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Also, since your data is automatically backed up to your Google Account, it’s securely stored even if you lose your phone. It has never been easier to run from one meeting to the other!
LDAPeople has once again proved to be a brilliant application for me, adding important contacts from my worker’s LDAP server that seconds laters get synced.
This entry was posted by frankps on February 11, 2009 at 11:20, and is filed under Web, iOS. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.
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