I have a situation, I use a iPhone with Mobile Me. I also use a Blackberry for work. I need to know if the iPhone will sync with Google in conjunction with Blackberry on google also this being done on a Mac. I want to have all my phones synced and used with a Mac and done wirelessly. Is this possible, if so how would I do it. Keep in mind that I have and use Mobile Me and don't want it to mess that up.
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Anyone using Google sync with iPhone?
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I used to have MobileMe using push mail, contacts and calendars. Now my membership expired so im using Google Sync. It's "basically" the same thing! The only thing that i cant "push" is my gmail, other than that, calendars and contacts push nicely. It works perfectly with the native calendar app on the iPhone. Just add some event, it appears on my google cal, edit in google cal, it gets pushed back to my iPhone... Seamless!
I had to take my iPhone to warranty, as my GPS was not working, got a new phone, activated google sync, BOOM all my contacts and calendar appointments were there... It has half of the things MobileMe does, but for free, and if you just want to backup your contacts, cant beat it!
I had to take my iPhone to warranty, as my GPS was not working, got a new phone, activated google sync, BOOM all my contacts and calendar appointments were there... It has half of the things MobileMe does, but for free, and if you just want to backup your contacts, cant beat it!
+1 i have the same situation here.
Google Sync is awesome, it just can't push your actual email. I use it to push my contacts and calendars and it works great. Like you said, I restored my phone completely, activated Gmail sync, and bam all of my contacts and calendars were there.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Google will remedy this situation. They are close partners with Apple and push is now readily available. It just seem inevitable that they will write one unified app that receives all Google apps information via push and applies it to the correct category (i.e. contacts, calendar, mail, etc.)
Google Sync is an implementation of Exchange Active Sync but for whatever reason Google haven't implemented email push with it. I guess they could at some stage do so and it would then all work.
The push notification framework wouldn't help in this situation because it only allows the sending of notifications, not data (or, at least, data that can be automatically applied somewhere)
The push notification framework wouldn't help in this situation because it only allows the sending of notifications, not data (or, at least, data that can be automatically applied somewhere)
you can try this to get push gmail working until its properly released
http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free
http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free