Google Sync (Beta of course) for your iPhone
I recently posted on the new support for CalDAV in the iPhone 3.0 software update. CalDAV is still useful if your have a Calendar you would like to sync with your iPhone that is not on Google. However if you use Google Calendars there is something better. Google Sync!
Here is a quick video to help you understand what Google Sync is.
Remember that Google Sync does not support push e-mail yet! So keep your IMAP setup until Sync Mail works. It currently only supports Contacts and Calendars.
It took me about an hour to clean up my Google Contacts. You must do this before you setup Google Sync. But now that I have all my contacts in Google its backup and safe. If I get a new phone all I need to do is configure my next phone with Google’s Exchange Server address and all my contacts and calendars will be added to that new phone.
There is one tricky step. Its step 13
13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.
I selected Delete. But only because I cleaned up my Google Contacts and my Google Contacts had all my info. So I didn’t need to keep anything on my phone. But make sure the contacts on Google match your iPhone before you delete. This is the cleanest way to have Sync running and I would recommend it.
If you use multiple Calendars in Google, Google Sync will also support this. After you setup Sync just go to m.google.com on the iPhone.
On the next screen click your iPhone under Manage devices. Then click the Calendars you want to add to Sync.
