NuevaSync: OTA iPhone/Google Sync

I wasted a silly amount of time today trying to get Windows Live Contacts/Calendar to sync with MobileMe (and the iPhone) via Outlook and the new Outlook Connector 12.1 beta. (Long story short: While you can, in fact, make your Windows Live data store the default in Outlook via Account Settings, Apple’s sync utility requires a Unicode-based PST file, and the Windows Live data store does not qualify or work at all. I’ll keep plugging away.) But what about Google’s Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar? This might be a good solution if push-style updating of the iPhone is a concern:

NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.

Supported Devices - Apple iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2.0; Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.

Supported Services - Google Calendar for calendar events; Google Contacts / GMail for contacts; Plaxo for contacts.

Thanks Tristan H. for the tip.

Discuss this Article 8

johnpapola
on Aug 3, 2008
Great find, Paul. I'm gonna check this out.
Master3
on Aug 3, 2008
Just so we save you know who the trouble of having another meltdown... Paul, you are truly obsessed. Absolutely, ridiculously obsessed. You have 100% jumped the shark on market commentary. Give up and spend more time on Windows. After all, [WHATEVER THIS TOPIC IS ABOUT] has no real impact on the Windows world, right? Isn't that your point? Doesn't that make your obsession that much more pointless?
cgdams
on Aug 3, 2008
@Master3: Not to sound rude, but: WTF are you talking about?
Master3
on Aug 3, 2008
@cgdams It's the rant posting from another thread from some Apple guy that blew a fuse because Paul was talking about Apple again. Since this post has Apple in it in some way, might as save them the trouble of posting.
Mum
on Aug 4, 2008
@Master3: The guy you are talking about just posted before you and said "Great find Paul. I'm gonna check this out." Which makes your post sound ever more idiotic.
james3mg
on Aug 4, 2008
Ugh...apparently mentioning the word iPhone is the new no-no if you don't want 50 worthless pingback entries! ...that's ridiculous. But at least I haven't seen the airline travel pingback in awhile! =)
subzerohitman721
on Aug 4, 2008
Very nice find Paul, thanks. I'm upgrading my phone after September and I hope to find a good smartphone/iPhone competitor.
Waethorn
on Aug 5, 2008
"I'm upgrading my phone after September and I hope to find a good smartphone/iPhone competitor." Touch Diamond looks good. Opera Mobile 9.5 supports better web standards than Safari Mobile. It still has IE Mobile too for those WAP sites*. Still waiting for Telus to carry it though. Although the CDMA version for Telus doesn't have the faceted back or the VGA front-facing camera for video calling (Bell's network, whom Telus piggy-backs off of, doesn't support video calling anyway), the Verizon version looks neutered by comparison. *Ok about WAP sites: Sorry, but loading text-based webpages on a 2-3" screen in a split second without ads or images is still preferable to zooming into multiple columns from a blurry pixellated image & having to pan around on the screen in all directions, and is as simple as using an RSS feed. The ability to see an entire website on a 2-3" screen when you have to see the entire page (and wait for it) is not good technology. Good technology is using WAP-based CSS sheets on the same page. Opera Mobile (and to a lesser extent, Safari) do an ok job, but whoever decided that you should have to zoom in and out multiple times and pan around in 4 directions just to find the content on an 800 x 1000 pixel website on a screen that's 1/4 the size should really have their head examined.

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