Get your Google Calendar / BlackBerry sync on
Google and RIM have been working together rather well as of late. A recent update to the integrated BlackBerry Google Chat client in October brought a host of nice features with a great UI, and the Gmail / BIS integration just keeps getting better with BES-like syncing features that make using Gmail with your Berry an incredibly pleasant experience. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better, Google dropped the latest bomb. Google Calender is now fully syncable with your on-board BlackBerry datebook. Simply download a small program from Google, enter all of the relevant details, and you’re as good as synced. Best of all, as with most Google services, this won’t cost you a penny. Hit the link and enjoy!
Where can you get this? The blackberry google updater shows no new updates and the link takes you to a generic page…
Here’s all the details:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sync/
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2007/12/no-more-excuses-for-being-late.html
Why is this only calendar and why is it just Blackberry. Most importantly though why is this only calendar?
@ Tyler Brock
You have to click the “All Products” link on the left to get the “Sync” option.
This only for Calendar. AFAIK, there isn’t anything that will let you sync contacts w/ Google contacts. There are number of solutions for syncing Google calendar with your phone.
- GCalsync (WM5/WM6) (My favorite. free version lets you sync 1 calendar directly to your phone OTA, no Outlook/Activesync needed. The Non-free lets you sync all Calendars.)
Goosync (works w/ any java enabled phone) havent tried this as it doesn’t work w/ my Blackjack
RemoteCalendars – works but it’s intended for MS Outlook Google Calendar sync. You have to Activesync in order for it to update the Calendar on your phone.
Go to Rimarkable.com. They have the OTA link in their posting. I just downloaded it and it works quite well.
thanks blue
K lemme be the moron here and ask why one would need one, seems the calender on BB works fine for me! Or am I missing something? Are there additional features on the Google one?
I saw this on a friend’s Blackberry about 6 months ago. He works for Google in an unrelated project. He swore me to secrecy after I told him I had been looking for such a solution. He thought it had already been released. Glad to know it’s out there finally.
Ok it doesent work fully.
If you create an event in outlook then sync it to the BB it wont upload the changes to google. i had to re-create that event ON THE BB to get it to upload to google
I wondered. My BlackBerry calendar is full of appointments. GCalendar has none after a ’successful’ sync.
Now all we need is the contacts to sync and then I can cancel my BES plan.
I wonder when Google will add a Tasks feature and Windows Mobile sync?
goosync.com has been doing this for awhile and it sync’s CONTACTS as well.
@t-will, I wish google had a task’s feature if they I just might stop using direct push and an email alias.
@ steve,
u figure this out, because i still cant get mine to sync
I bought syncmycal to sync outlook 2007 to Google calendar and downloaded the Google sync app for blackberry as a workaround to get my outlook to sync to the blackberry. Google does not sync all the appointments. I’ve tried everything and cannot get it to work right even if I delete and add appts. I’ve messed with Service books, etc and nothing gets the Google sync to capture all appointments. The sync software to sync outlook to google works fine and it’s $25.
Any ideas??
You might (like me) have your google calendar embedded in a website that need to syn with bb data
solution to that is: sync your blackberry with outlook (or whatever you use), export from outlook and import to google calander, clear your blackberry calander and sync… all the appointments will download to blackberry and future sync’s will work. It worked for me, though I did have problems with reoccuring appointments that had changes on some off the occurences, my tip is just to check anything important on google.
I like the feature
I use it all the time
The Google program will only sync calendar events going forward. Pre-existing events are not included (and I have absolutely no idea why).
Google has two separate Google Syncs. One for Outlook and one for the Blackberry. I am using both. I use Google Sync for Outlook so when I type something in Outlook it automatically updates the Google Calendar. I then use Google Sync for Blackberry so that the Google Calendar then updates my Blackberry. Essentially I update one calendar by hand and all the others get updated automatically. It’s a piece of cake and it works flawlessly. Cheers!
If you add an appointment in your BB does it update Outlook?
I have installed the sync option on my CURVE. I have two calendars on my Google Calendar. One of them is for school and one of them is the default calendar. The only calendar syncing with my curve is the default calendar, and I cannot get the school one to sync as well. Any help?
Just click on the calendar and select all the calendars that you want to sincronize