Anjasaurus

I read a post about a new beta feature at Google, Google Sync. It would sync your calendars and contacts with your iPhone without the use of iTunes. Right now, I’m doing the same thing already, but through iTunes, and also through Outlook for the calendar. A bit of a workaround but so far it works.

But I thought I would give this new sync feature a try, even though I don’t have an unlimited data plan. It might not use so much data, I thought. Plus, as the sync feature would be Google’s, I believed it would have better featuers and work better together with Google stuff. Like, no contacts from “suggested contacts” are added and it can handle multiple calendars (<3 color).

So I tried.

It was easy and nice to set up. A bit scary to delete all my contacts but it synced up nicely after a little loading time. The calendar also synced fine, I only had one so far since I use Outlook. According to Google’s help files, Google Sync should be able to handle several calendars, I would just need to log in through Safari. Yeah right. I tried, iPhone is obviously “not supported”, which is not what the help files says. So I could just use one calendar, it needs to use wifi/3g everytime I want to browse or change my contacts/calendar and it’s a beta feature. Which means it can fail more often (though Google use a lot of beta without problems..). No, this was a disappointment. :P I’ll keep to my workaround ways until this Google Sync is more well-tested and I feel a real need for colors in my calendar.