Tags: Google, Palm
Google Calendar (no Palm Sync yet)
April 13th, 2006, by Rich.
Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before - it’s basically a hybrid of the two.
Palm Sync for Google Calendar is Needed
My initial impression is that it looks good, but without the ability to sync with handheld devices (e.g. Palm Pilot) it’s ubiquity is far from certain.
PC-using iPod owners will no doubt be delighted to know that their music machine can already sync with google calendar, thanks to it’s support for the iCal format (if Palm Inc. are listening, take note!)
iCal
The best of the low-hanging fruit so far is that it happily subscribes to iCal files, so publicly available calendars (which are typically produced by the legion of apple users who have been enjoying a good calendar app for a couple of years) are now far more accessible to web-based users.
Sharing
The ability to collaboratively author calendars looks good too, however, this seems to be broken at the moment.
Update: People want Palm Sync!
Since writing the above entry I’ve noticed an awful lot of people arriving here with similar desires… it’s understandable really, given that Palm have sold over 34 million PDA’s worldwide, and licensed the OS for use in millions more phones.
September 17th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Definitely usefull !
palmsync and google calender!!
September 27th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Yes, I’d also like to easily sync my Treo to my Google Calendar!
September 29th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Please, I **NEED** Google Calendar sync with my Palm T|X.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:33 am
How can they not have this working. It is useless without this feature…
October 11th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
For what its worth I installed the CompanionLink product today and it worked straight out of the box using the synchronisation between the Palm Desktop and Google Calendar. I had to empty the Google calendar in order to get rid of duplicate entries in Google on the first synch but thereafter it has worked just fine.
I’m currently on the 14 day trial so we’ll see if everything continues well :-)
Andrew
October 24th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
With Google’s new SMS tools, recently announced, I’m thinking I don’t need Palm sync. Google can SMS me my daily aggenda, SMS appointment reminders, and I can send a text message to google to ask for my schedule for the day and it’ll send it back.
Okay, so it’ll suck if you lose service. And you may still want the various displays you get with Palm calendar apps.
Also, you want the contacts sync’d.
But SMS interaction with gCal rocks!
BTW, I’ve not been able to get Companion Link to work. Perhaps because I use a hosted Gmail account? I dunno. Bummer.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:21 am
I second everyone who wants to sync Palm and Google. I installed the CompanionLink product today and it worked - BUT it only copied one of my calednars from Google to Palm and not all!!! How do we get around this??? HELP!!!
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:24 pm
I’m testing GooSync (http://www.goosync.com).
Until now it’s working.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I have been using CompanionLink for about a month now. After a few minor
glitches and help from CompanionLink’s tech support, it has been working very
well. The only problem is many of my events create duplicates. Lots and lots
of duplicates. Any ideas???
December 4th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
With new Smartphone application called Xynapt, the synchronization is now just a click away! Xynapt will synchronization your Google Contacts/Calendar with your Smartphone / Pocket PC over the air, anytime anywhere. It is vendor-independent and works with multiple applications such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and other PIMs. Anytime, anywhere, OTA sync.
http://www.apturion.com/xynapt.htm