I uploaded my contacts but lost the ones that did not have email & the extra field info was lost.

It's pretty awesome. It syncs all the details from the "about" area as well. 

Be aware there's a bit of a delay though. An event I set myself as attending yesterday only showed up this morning.

Yup. Google Sync should do that. It can push everything from your iPhone out to Google. The only caveat is that Google's "Contacts" appears to have been built in the 80's or something because it strips out a lot of fields. (The guys that did the DB for it likely didn't have a lot of friends.)If you have someone's birthday or anniversay listed in a special date field it won't sync to Google and will likely get lost. Basic Name, address, phone, email info is there though.

Maybe i didnt explain myself well .. sorry

I meant, i dont use google for contact or anything, they are all in my iphone. I would like to send all my iphone contacts to google.

I haven't had any problems. I've been able to sync iPhone to Google to Outlook and back again. The one thing to keep in mind is that Google is the hub. If I update in one of the three spots it populates to the others in a short amount of time.

However, I was able to select the additional calendars from the m.google.com/sync link.

And after I did that, the "calendars" option returned.

Thank you!!

I found that doc after alot of digging on the Google support page. Thanks for the help!

@Ryan - Have you selected All Calendars in the Calendar App? (Top left hand corner when viewing calendar on the phone) Also, see Erics post a few above about going to the m.google.com/sync link in safari and ticking the additional calendars

Goggle sync if it works will kill mobile me.

It deleted the contents of all contacts with custom tags for phone numbers on the device - data is still on google contacts!

To add the additional Calendars to your Google syncing go to (on your iPhone browser) the m.google.com/sync page. You can select the addition calendars from there. Everything syncs fine after that.

Works well enough for my simple calendaring needs, and quite fast too.

Back to the topic -- for anybody that has tried it, is there any way/workaround to sync extra contact information (e.g. birthdays)? The information on the google sync pages did not seem promising.

Microsoft has done enough embracing and extending of licenses or standard protocols (hello, J#, hello KERBEROS) in the past that I would expect them to take every step possible in their licensing agreements to prevent somebody from doing the same to them.

In fact, J# is a better example than your puppy/web browser example. Sun licensed Java to Microsoft, under the conditions that certain libraries be included unchanged, and that a certain set of tests must pass. Microsoft violated that license, and, although they produced an otherwise quite good implementation of Java, they were forced to settle when Sun took them to court. Google may want to license only part of the technology, but, given Microsoft's history on both sides of these issues, I would expect them to them to include explicit protections on the remainder in their contracts.

So yes, anything outside the schema is simply ignored...

...by a parser, but not by lawyers.

Wouldn't prohibiting this be like licensing a web browser but forbid looking at pages about puppies.

Google would have to get Apple to honor one more verb in the active sync protocol. But that protocol was meant to be extensible.

Its not unusual to license something just because you want to use a small part of it.

Note: Nasty long link to a GOOGLE cache of a Microsoft Paper on EAS: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:p4T-ulCxq5MJ:download.microsoft.com/download/0/4/9/049a0e9a-e173-448e-a1a1-059e773927a7/Mobile%2520Messaging%2520with%2520Exchange%2520ActiveSync.doc+Exchange+activesync+protocol+extensions&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Astute summary.

I think this also has the earmarks of a camels nose under the tent. Once google has the license in hand what they do with it is sort of up to them.

Reviewing: Active Sync is a one trick pony. Its only claim to fame is the mechanism of maintaining a TCP connection until it times out, (Even with the radios OFF apparently), and waking up every 12 to 18 minutes to re-check status on this connection. If connection is readable (data pending) it calls home to find out what to do. If the connection has dropped, it establishes a new one, checks for data, and goes to sleep.

I doubt this technique could be patented, its just TCP, but be that as it may...

Now that Google licenses this, what else can they hang on it? Gmail sync, Contacts Sync, Calendar sync seem to be the tip of the spear.

What about notifications of changes to Google Docs? (Shared ones)? What about google chat (google talk) requests when you don't have the Google Chat page up? What about notifications to open other apps? (google apps or non-google apps) in the future?

So I wonder, did Google steal a march on Apple's long promised Push for Apps? Has Apple just been Punked?

• Limited to 5 Calendars Syncing more than 5 Calendars to the iPhone's Calendar application often causes all Calendars to appear in the same bright yellow or cyan color, making it impossible to use the Calendar application effectively. Google is working with Apple to resolve this issue.

But, Microsoft making ActiveSync available for license, and Google and Apple swallowing their own initiatives to license it, does what any non-market-leader does:

Fractures the market.

Collectively, everybody wins but RIM.

Microsoft gives up a little in letting others use their tech, Apple and Google give up a little in helping make Microsoft's tech the new "standard", and RIM suddenly has to worry about not only WinMo, but iPhone, Android, Nokia, etc.

Hmmm...

I guess it's nice to have an "official" client to do this stuff with, though. All hail Google.

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Awesome !!!!!!!

Good luck with this mess.