Anyone using Google sync with iPhone?

Can Google Sync update the native calendar on the iPhone? Kind of like it does on Blackberry?

 

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!

 

so gmail syncing doesn't work?

 

+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.)

 

that would be welcomed

 

I use mobileme still - because AFAIK, you cannot have different contact groups with gmail.

 

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