One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your address book and calendar to your new device. to solve this problem recently Google released a beta version of Google Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones as well as a contacts-only version for phones that support SyncML.
Google Sync offers two-way, over-the-air contacts and calendar synchronization. This means that you can make changes to your contacts and calendar on your phone or in your desktop Google account. Since Sync uses push technology, the changes should automatically appear within minutes. And your information is constantly syncing, so it's up-to-date and securely stored within your Google account, even if you lose your phone.
(Google Sync on Nokia S60)
Now the same technology come for Nokia S60 devices. Google Sync uses the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. To use Google Sync with your Nokia phone, you need to install Mail for Exchange, a free software application from Nokia. Many Nokia phones ship with it, but it's recommend that you download the latest version from the Nokia website. Google Sync works best with version 2.09 or 2.9 & above.
Google Sync may remove all existing contacts and calendar events from your phone, so make sure to back up any important data before you set up Google Sync.
Google Calendar is a full featured Calendar App which provides best tools to organized your life . It easily manage your appointment dates, To do, meeting dates, friends family birthday reminders, Project deadlines, Credit Card Payment Due. Everything is very easy to manage but there was one thing which was missing in Google Calendar, "Task"
In Gmail it was there withing labs category which is very hand if you need to organized your task management within Gmail but now Google also integrated task list feature to Calendar
Features at glance
Tasks that have due dates will automatically appear on your calendar. To create a task with a due date in Calendar, click on an empty space in month view or the all-day section of week view, and be sure select the "Task" option.
To attach a due date to an existing task, click the right-arrow from within the task list, and then click on the calendar icon.
You can modify a task's due date by dragging it to a different date, just as you would with a regular calendar event.
To mark a task completed from within Calendar, just click on the task's checkbox.
To keep track of due dates before they arrive, there's a feature called "Sort by due date" available in the Actions menu at the bottom of your task list.
Update: Task also available in Google Apps Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions
Google is signing up 3,000 business users to Google Apps every day. More & more people are coming to Google Apps but before that all senior business people do use Blackberry with service like push email, Calendar,IM, SMS so to connect Blackberry users with Google Apps today Google announce Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.
By this new software component will make it even easier for mobile users to use Google Apps on BlackBerry® smartphones. It allows users to access Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts using the built-in BlackBerry smart phone applications they already popular.
So what are the main features ?
Mail is pushed to your device so fast email access.
Messages read on your BlackBerry show up as "Read" in Gmail, and vice versa.
Messages deleted on your BlackBerry are deleted in Gmail, and vice versa.
Synced between your BlackBerry and Gmail contacts.
Select which folders and labels to sync.
one-way sync from Google Apps to your BlackBerry device for Calenders (Two way is coming)
Use standard BES Server features to enforce IT policy, push applications, remote wipe devices, etc. (compatible with postini )
What will Google Gain from this step?
There are 21 million BlackBerry users in 150 countries. Most of are senior business people which will help Google to gain more customers.
Google is signing up 3,000 business users to Google Apps every day & by this Google can provide batter service for enterprises
Business guys usually live either on their Blackberry or in Outlook & Google wants those business guys to lose that last habit and to live in Gmail.
Users can also access the email addresses and phone numbers of their co-workers using a company wide Global Address List. Both personal and business contacts saved on Google Apps are automatically synchronized over the air to users' BlackBerry smartphones and integrated into the native Blackberry smartphone applications. To use it, you need BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server.), but not the Exchange Server. it uses a "native" synchronization protocol.
This feature will available for Google Apps Premier and Education Edition for free of cost in between July 2009.
(Google Sync on Nokia S60)
