How To: Over-the-Air Synchronization with Google
I have always used my Windows Mobile device for work and personal business, always keeping to two as separate as possible. But the more I use my work’s Exchange Server, the convenience of over-the-air synchronization is winning and blurring the line between work and play.
But what’s a guy (or gal) do when you don’t want personal appointments or information on your work’s server? What if you don’t have access to an Exchange server but want the convenience of OTA synchronization?
One possible solution is to take advantage of Google Calendar and Gmail’s contacts. Google Calendar offers you a convenient way to keep track of personal appointments through an online format and share them with others as the need arises. Like many, I have a Gmail account for some of my personal ventures, and to have my Windows Mobile contacts mirrored there as well is an advantage.
So how do you go about getting your phone to talk to the Google applications? Better yet, how do you accomplish this without wires? Google doesn’t offer an OTA solution in-house, so we looked out-of-house, so to speak.
In the search for solutions we ran across a few options, with the most prominent being Goosync, Nuevasync and Oggsync. We decided to take a look at these “big three” in the OTA market to see how they compared. Read on after the break to see how these OTA solutions measured up.
