This is what Google Calendar looks like in Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 5 (Pocket PC).
It doesn’t actually turn you away for using an unsupported browser, like most Ajax Google apps. The page loads completely (it’s about 375KB, according to the PIE progress bar), but once it loads, this is all you get. The only links that actually work are the ones at the very top (Google, Gmail, more). There’s a “Sign Out” link if you scroll right, but that’s it.
Not unexpected, but I wanted to document what happens on a Windows Mobile device.
What do you think the best way to implement a mobile version of Google Calendar would be?
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We must have a psychic mobile connection! What’s the first action I took yesterday morning after reading up on the new Google Calendar? Same thing you did; I just didn’t write it up.
BTW: I also tried it on Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile 5.0 and it was generally the same experience. First mobile browser than can handle AJAX on top of today’s advanced features (multiple tags, etc…) will be a winner in my book!
Ali Mills has built a mobile version of the Google Calendar, you can check it out here: http://www.asserttrue.com
I would love an app that lives on the phone that syncs over the web with Google (cal and docs)
This may work in the future. – It’s exactly what I want.
GCALSYNC
http://www.gcalsync.com/
I wanted to sync Google Calendar events with my Mobile 5.0 device wirelessly, without Outlook, without ActiveSync and without putting my Google Account information into a third-party website. When I couldn’t find what I wanted, I wrote my own, GMobileSync.
http://rareedge.com/gmobilesync/
Eric
I think the ideal solution would be something similar to Google’s Gmail for mobile application. It’s a small java app that (I think) connects to Gmail via web services. The interface is then highly optimised for the formfactor of the device it’s on.
Although on a windows Mobile device it wouldn’t be java… but something written in .Net.
Also would like to add OggSync to your list of solutions.
http://oggsync.com
Free for one calendar, supports multiple google calendars and automatic (background) syncing.
I just tried OggSync and it slowed down my BlackJack beyound reasonable use, So I took it off. It could be becasue I’am also running active sync for Exchange server.
I’m using GmobileSync on my wife’s new WM smartphone, and it’s working great. Free and open source as a bonus.
Well, I had to hop on the bandwagon since I also couldn’t find exactly what I wanted out there, so I wrote my own sync program, ActiveGcSync:
http://www.milow.net/site/projects/activegcsync/main.html
It supports two-way sync, auto-updating, only updating certain events to google (like only private ones), and it’s free too!
I should have called it Yet Another Google Calendar Sync
http://code.google.com/p/pocketgcal/
might be pretty sweet
Are you still using this tool?
My phone uses WM 5.0 and the wife’s new one is a SmartPhone (the Instinct), so I am looking for ways to better leverage google calendar’s features. Neither of us is really happy with the mobile presentation you pointed out in this post.
I bought a MAC so I use the Missing Sync from markspace.com. Plaxo even works better than what I paid 40 bucks for.