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Address book for iPod Touch and iPad, possibly with desktop client
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Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Another one that looks rather good - and has had some very good reviews - is Multi Edit
>Contact Manager. But I can’t say I have personal experience. I’m tempted, though,
>‘cos my contacts are in much the same state as yours!
Yes, I have come across that one as well, it seems to be one of the better ones. But now that I have perfect sync with Gmail Contacts (thanks to Pierre), another app seems superfluous for the iPod Touch (I don’t need to make phonecalls or send SMS) because any remaining duplicate contacts can be managed (merged etc.) directly in Gmail Contacts.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 19, 2012 at 11:51 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>>Pierre,
>>thank you so much for your help. It pretty much fixed all my problems,
>I believe. I
>>should have done this years ago :)
>
>Great ! I haven’t tried any other contact management app for the iPod
>Touch as I find the built-in one sufficient for my needs and very well
>integrated with the other apps (mail, facetime, etc) and AFAICT changes
>made on the iPod or on GMail Contacts make their way to the other
>perfectly everytime !
My joy (and the solution) has been short-lived. Apparently Google is shutting down Exchange syncing for free Gmail accounts on 30-Jan-2013:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/19/microsoft_google_winter_cleaning/
I can’t believe it has come to this, but I’d be even willing to return to Microsoft… Has anybody here upgraded their Hotmail email and contacts to Outlook.com? Does the contact sync work with iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad native Contacts app?
Or are there any other options? If I have to pay for a decent email/contact service, I’d rather use a specialist company than Google.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 20, 2012 at 12:05 AM
One of commenters in the article says that ” iOS users are pretty safe at the moment as Google are permitted (at Apples discretion of course) to distribute a dedicated email client for that platform, its not a big problem for iOS users (for the moment).”
If that’s true, perhaps I’m panicking a bit too soon. But it might be the future…
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 20, 2012 at 12:07 AM
Oops, but perhaps s/he wasn’t talking about the native Gmail client, so Exchange is still gone. I guess we’ll find out on Jan. 30th…
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 20, 2012 at 12:50 AM
Dr Angus,
Having tried outlook.com, it is years behind GMail (IMHO)...
And using the GMail App is no solution as what iOS user want is integration with the native email app, not a GMail app. The GMail app is only better than the native app for searching.
Perhaps this can help:
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-sync-google-contacts-with-iphone-contacts-using-carddav/
Thanks for the “sad” news, I’ll need to try it out myself too !
Calendaring is a separate issue. The iOS built-in driver was not working well. Specifically, adding a new Calendar in Google was not being transfered to the iOS device…
HTH !
Pierre