Google can now sync your Windows Mobile calendar and contacts with your Google Calendar and Gmail contacts. They announced this a couple of weeks ago on their blog. Today, I finally got around to trying it. I have to say that it gives new life to my 2 year old Windows Mobile phone. I’ve been contemplating a move to the T-Mobile G1, but with this service, I can comfortably wait for the G2 or some other better-looking Android phone.
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It did not take very long for my calendar to synchronize between my old smartphone and Google Calendar. Within minutes I was able to view all of my appointments on my phone. It took a little longer for all my contacts to synchronize, but it worked out. The only limitation that Google Sync has is that it only works for your calendar and contacts. If you want to sync your email, Windows Mobile allows for the use of IMAP. Google’s Sync is not the perfect and complete solution, but it’s good enough that I don’t have to pay for Exchange hosting. One little surprise that I really liked is that contacts that come from Gmail also synchronize the person’s avatar. Of course, this works best for those people who are on Gmail and update their own. Otherwise, you pretty much have to create your own.
Google Sync is also supposed to work with the iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia S60, and Sony Ericsson. Of course, I could only test on Windows Mobile.
There are other sync features for PC, Mac, and Linux on the Google Sync page.
