Google Sync

Millions of people are addicted to using Gmail and a variety of other Google services such as Calendar and Contacts. If you’re one of them, you no doubt have wished for a way to wirelessly sync your phone to your computer.

Today Google has granted your wish in the form of Google Sync. If you have an iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson, or Nokia standard phone, you can now sync your Google Contacts and Calendar with your mobile phone of choice, wirelessly, and for free.

I’ve heard from a number of people already how great it is to finally sync their Google stuff wirelessly. The only caution that keeps coming up, though, is that Google wipes out your data on your device first, so make sure to run a backup before you use the software.

This is definitely interesting timing by Google especially since Microsoft mistakenly announced its new My Phone service, which will do the same and more, but just for Windows Mobile phones. Google’s offering covers a wide variety of phones, including Windows Mobile, so it will definitely be interesting to see what happens next.

I’ve been using Hosted Exchange for a while now. Since I pay for that service and Google’s and Microsoft’s new services are free, I think I’ll give them a shot and see how they compare.

It supports all kinds of phones and you can get your contacts from one platform to another without much issues,.. its a gr8 tool to manage your contacts and backup too.