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March 06, 2009
Synchronicity: Ubiquitous contacts and calendars
If there's any better contact/calendar system than Google's free service, we've yet to find it. The contacts work well with the iPhone, and since Google adopted SyncML, you can now keep your calendar up to date on Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson and many Nokia phones.
We prefer, however, to use the free beta service from NuevaSync, which works with the iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Mobile and Nokia N and E series devices. They keep a gruelling update schedule, and their future plans include support for psh email and a backup and restore service for contacts, calendars and tasks.
You don't have to install any software on your iPhone or desktop, and it capitalises beautifully on the iPhone's ability to sync with a Microsoft Exchange Server.
You set up a free acount, give NuevaSync your Google access details, authorise calendar sharing, then go into the iPhones Settings and configure it to use the NuevaSync server as if it were an enterprise Microsoft Exchange server.
Like magic, you have bidirectional sync between the iPhone Calendar and Google Calendar which quickly mirror changes either from Google or on the iPhone Calendar app. As this FAQ indicates, you can sync up to 11 calendars, choose which of your calendars to share, and NuevaSync supports shared calendars.
Posted by cw at March 6, 2009 10:25 AM
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