iPhone by Steve

Spanning Sync has finally made good on their promise to add Google Contacts sync to their already impressive Gcal syncing program.

As much as I love my iPhone, there are a couple of things that bug me. My main annoyance has to do with the iPhone’s limited support for Apple Ical. Here are the biggest problems:

1. First, the iPhone’s calendar does not support multiple calendars.

For the past decade or so, Microsoft Outlook has been the standard in personal information management. As a Windows Mobile user, I also used Outlook Mobile on my Treo 700wx. Actually, in combination, the desktop version and the mobile version of Outlook work pretty well, but there were a few quirks that bugged me.

I decided I needed to change. I needed a device that could provide easy, uncomplicated operation in several areas:

* Email that just worked. In my case, a better Gmail experience on my mobile phone.
* Better Internet browsing that felt more like the experience using a PC or my MacBook Pro.
* Easy syncing that didn’t cause problems like I experienced with Windows Mobile.
* Good calendar functions (which in fact were just fine on Windows Mobile, so I guess I just wanted a calendar that worked just as well).
* I wanted to untether myself from Microsoft Outlook. That, actually, can be done with a Windows Mobile phone, but I was curious to see if a better Internet browser could make it even easier for me.
* Although both Treos that I owned were capable of playing songs and could theoretically play video as well, I found it pretty difficult to play movies and actually just gave up. I travel a lot, and, while not essential, I thought that having a hassle-free way to watch movies might be nice.

My requirements made my mobile phone buying decision pretty easy. Since a better Internet experience seemed to be the cornerstone of my needs, there seemed to be only one place to turn, to Apple, of course, and the iPhone.