09 Mar 09 Sync contacts and calendars with your smartphone

This is great news – Google has now made it possible for you to sync your contacts & calendars with your smartphone. I’m using it with my iPhone, in fact, and so far it’s been great.

Basically, I sync Google Contacts & my Google Calendars with my iPhone over the air using Google Mobile Sync, but I also sync Contacts and Calendars with my Mac’s Address Book & iCal using Spanning Sync. That way, everything works together seamlessly, which is just the way I want it.

You can read articles about how to enable Mobile Sync for your smartphone, as well as how it all works, in some of the following:

Google Sync for your mobile phones
Google Tutor

http://www.googletutor.com/2009/02/12/google-sync-for-your-mobile-phones/

Google beta of Sync for mobile contacts & calendar is live
The Unofficial Apple Weblog

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/09/google-beta-of-sync-for-mobile-contacts-and-calendar-is-live/

Finally: Google Sync Comes to iPhone and Windows Mobile
Mashable

http://mashable.com/2009/02/09/google-sync/

Google Mobile – Sync
Google [the official pages & instructions]

http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

Tags: Contact Manager, Google Calendar, New features, Smartphones, Spanning Sync, Synchronization