Google Releases Sync for iPhone and Windows Mobile - Push Gmail Coming Soon? - ReadWriteWeb

Mon, Feb 9th, 2009

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Starting today, you can wirelessly sync your contacts and calendars from Gmail and Google Apps with the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones. A number of third-party providers already offered similar sync capabilities, but now, Google itself can automatically push calendar and address book changes directly to these phones. In typical Google fashion, this new product is released as a beta, and there are still a few known problems, but in our own tests, the push sync worked just as advertised.

Google Sync was already available for Blackberry users and you could already sync your Gmail contacts on the iPhone through iTunes. This, however, was relatively inconvenient and Google surely heard a lot of complaints from business users who needed more 'Outlook-like' capabilities on their phones.

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