Google Adds Over-the-air Calendar, Contact Sync For Iphone

摘要

Syncingyour contacts and calendars to the iPhone-and, more important, keeping them in sync-is easy enough if you're using MobileMe or you have a Microsoft Exchange account, both of which keep your contacts and calendars up-to-date through the magic of wireless syncing. Meanwhile, iPhone users who rely on online services such as Yahoo and Google have suffered second-class status, forced into the inequity of having to actually plug their iPhones into their computers.rnBut if you're a Google user, those days are coming to a close. Happily, Google has announced that it will now be offering over-the-air synchronization of Google contacts and calendars with the iPhone, the iPod touch, Windows Mobile-based phones, and SyncML-compatible devices. The secret sauce that makes it all so delicious? As it turns out, it's Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, the same foundation that enables Exchange's own synchronization features.rnIt's a step in the right direction, and one that may even get a few MobileMe users thinking about jumping ship.