The contacts and calendar actually use the MS Exchange option from Mail, Contacts and Setting in general settings. It provides the soft option for mail, but by Google's own admission, is not supported as of yet. So I decided to select just the calendar and give it a go. Sync occurred very quickly, but as I looked through my iPhone calendar I noticed a major discrepancy. All of the events were there, but they have no color coding and no distinction as to which Google calendar they've come from, be it personal, work, US Holidays, etc. Bogus! Here's how my native calendar looks using the jailbroken app, NemusSync.
I backtracked and pulled the google sync out of the exchange option, then tried to resync my calendar through NemusSync (the jailbroken app that I've used to date very happily). Had to uninstall, then reinstall that and completely resync all calendars, as Nemus wouldn't even function after I had configured the exchange option for GSB. Back to Nemus and very happy with it.
Summation: not very happy with Google's new features so far!!!
MK
Gross. That sucks. I back up my contacts with a spare sim chip that I keep handy. They're only a couple of bucks. Now that we've got hard drives in our phones, the sim chip back-up option doesn'twork as well. When I save contacts on the jPhone, I notice that they aren't copied to my sim unless I request. Heck, better then the jRazr that just kept most of my contacts on the phone's very small temp memory unless specifically told to move to the sim. In other words, this Google thing could solve a lot of my issues with transferring contacts if they can figure it out.
ReplyDeleteYeah - seems like they're really trying to bolster this offering as the mobile market continues to grow (especially with respect to the iPhone), but there are definitely some loose ends that need to be tied together...
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