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Google brings cloud syncing to the iPhone and Windows Mobile
VentureBeat — ... The detailed steps of how to set this up for both the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices can be found here. It’s definitely worth noting that there are currently some limitations. For example, with the iPhone, you can only sync 5 calendars, due to the way the iPhone displays different calendar colors (apparently, it starts using some funky colors that you can’t really see beyond 5 calendars). Google says it’s working with Apple to resolve this. ...

Google Gets in Sync
WebProNews Feed — [image] Sync Your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar to Your Mobile Device Google introduced a beta version of Google Sync today. This allows Google users to sync their Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events to their iPhones or Windows Mobile devices (with Google's own Android, all the data is automatically synced)."With Google Sync, whether users make changes to calendar events and contacts from their browsers or mobile devices, changes will be reflected in both places automatically, within minutes," explains Debbie Light with the Google Apps Team. "And because Google Sync ties directly into devices' pre-installed calendar and contacts ...

Google Sync now supports iPhones, Windows Mobile devices
Obsessable News Feed — ... To get started, Google has put together some step-by-step guides for you to read through, with custom instructions for different phone manufacturers. Google warns you, but we just want to reiterate: be sure to back up any contacts and calendar items on your phone before trying to set this up, as Google starts the install by clearing out what's already stored. Though it seems to work relatively well, the service is still technically only in a beta release, so expect a bug here and there. ...

Google Adds Contact, Calendar Sync to Most Smartphones [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — Google Sync has actually been around a bit for the BlackBerry crowd. Today, Google rolls out the service in bits and pieces for Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian S60 and certain Motorola and Sony Ericsson handsets. Since Windows Mobile and the iPhone natively support Micrsoft’s Exchange, Google Sync will offer both Contacts and Calendar sync on those devices. Handsets that support SyncML only get Contacts for now. Bear in mind: there’s no Gmail support in Google Sync just yet. It wouldn’t surprise me to see push Gmail coming soon, however. Like Apple and others, Google is licensing Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology to ...