I know you have heard of GooSync on BerryReview before to sync your Google Calendar and contacts 1 way with your BlackBerry. Josep just let me know that they have just added a serious upgrade to their premium feature set with bidirectional sync. Bidirectional means that it syncs the contacts from Google to your Berry AND from your Berry back to Google. The premium service costs 20 euros so I am not sure what that is in dollars currently. You can read more about it at www.goosync.com.
The new features in GooSync Premium
- Sync appointments up to 365 days in advance
- Sync multiple Google Calendars
- Sync Google Contacts – Both ways
- Sync Tasks
After the jump you can see a table breakdown of the features available in the free versus the premium version. Its a damn good alternative to a BES if your looking for the poor mans BES.
| Free Service | Premium Service | |
| Bi-directional Calendar Synchronization Giving you the ability to synchronize your events and appointments between your device and your Google Calendar account. |
X | X |
| All-Day Events Synchronize birthdays and other all-day events. |
X | X |
| Repeating Events Support for repeating events (an appointment every Monday at 9am etc). |
X | X |
| Appointment Reminders Synchronize appointment reminders. Be alerted before a meeting. |
X | X |
| Free/Busy Status Sync an appointments Free/Busy status. Also know as the Available/Busy setting in Google Calendar. |
X | X |
| Private Events Allows you to synchronize private events. |
X | X |
| Google Apps Support Allows you to synchronize your device with your Google Apps Calendar. |
X | X |
| Full Access to Sync Logs Allowing you to see the details of your recent syncs. |
X | X |
| Additional Sync Modes Support for additional sync modes such as Update Device and Update Server. |
X | |
| Priority Support Get priority on all requests sent to GooSync support. |
X | |
| AutoSync Get the AutoSync feature added to the GooSync client on your Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices. |
X | |
| Configurable Sync Window You can select +- 365 days, allowing you to sync any events that fall within this sync window. |
X | |
| Multi Calendar Support Allows you to select and sync events from any of your Google Calendars. |
X | |
| Read Only Calendars Sync events to your device from any read-only shared calendar. |
X | |
| Appointment Attendees Allows you to know who’s coming to that meeting by synchronizing any confirmed attendees to your device. |
X | |
| Google Contacts Synchronization Providing you with a bi-directional contacts synchronisation between your device and your Google account. |
X | |
| GooSync Contacts Synchronization Giving you the ability to synchronize Contacts between your device and your GooSync account. |
X | |
| Import/Export GooSync Contacts Allows you to import and export contacts, within GooSync, in both vCard and .csv format. Includes support for the Google .csv format. |
X | |
| GooSync Contacts Manager Providing you with a full contacts manager within your GooSync account. Allowing you to maintain your contacts from a central location. |
X | |
| GooSync Contacts Backup and Restore Keep your contacts safe and secure on our servers. Even if your device is lost or broken your contacts can be easily restored. |
X | |
| Tasks Manager Providing you a full tasks manager within your GooSync account. Allowing you to maintain your tasks from a central location. |
X | |
| Tasks Backup and Restore Keep your tasks safe and secure on our servers. Even if your device is lost or broken your tasks can be easily restored. |
X |
anon101 Not Registered
Posted: May 19, 2008 at 11:08 AM EST
Does it support syncing categories?
anon101 Not Registered
Posted: May 19, 2008 at 11:11 AM EST
I may have answered my own question:
What are the differences between GooSync and Google Contacts synchronisation?
* Using GooSync offers a sync between your GooSync contacts and your device. Your contacts are securely stored in GooSync and you can view and modify your contacts using the GooSync Contacts manager. In addition you can sync categories.
From: http://www.goosync.com/Help.aspx#confaq5
jacob Not Registered
Posted: May 20, 2008 at 5:00 PM EST
i would never cancel my BES for this. i tried googlesync once the software provide by google and kept getting errors when clicking on events saying they were removed from served. i would have to do a battery pull to get everything working again. bes is the way to go