Life Without Activesync, Part II

While I'm still using Funambol as my primary PIM sync system, I thought I'd point out yet another alternative that might be of particular interest to Google Mail and Calendar users.

Google has licensed EAS (Exchange Activesync) from Microsoft, and implemented it as part of their Google Sync service. This means Windows Mobile, iPhone, and some Nokia Symbian users can sync with their Google contacts and Calendar without the need for any additional software- the phones' native included sync applications will sync directly with Google. For Windows Mobile users, this means the Activesync app built into the device.

The instructions are here: http://www.google.com/mobile/winmo/sync.html.

In addition to being able to sync in the "clouds" via Google, adding an Outlook plug-in that supports syncing with Google, like Google's own Calendar (only) sync tool: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955, or a third-party product like OggSync, http://oggsync.com/ that syncs both GMail Contacts and Calendar with Outlook, will give you another free over-the-air PIM-sync alternative to Hosted Exchange.