Comments on: What Should Google Mobile Do Next?

By: rick

rick — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:32:39 +0000

It’s just a matter of time before Google adds contact sync!!!! Add Yahoo! Go, to your list of applications and it will sync your contact, calendar, email upload pictures all OTA. I’m not a fan of Yahoo until now because this app Rocks and is very smooth. Lastly, T-Mobile users unable to use unsigned app? I’m with T-Mobile and run them all the time on my pearl 8100 unsigned. You have to fork out $19.99 per month for t-mobile bis, which put you on blackberry servers.

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By: rowanrook

rowanrook — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:00:37 +0000

I am guessing that when an Android phone comes out, it will address most of these issues. After all, why would Google make other phone OS’s work better with their services when they can roll their own. It’s not Goog that needs to get the proverbial finger out: it’s carriers and phone manufacturers with their kludgy designs and walled gardens. That said, I echo the votes for contact sync. And oververall tighter integration of services. It’s ridiculous to have to sign in more than once.

By: HeavyLight

HeavyLight — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:01:07 +0000

Has anybody noticed how many Symbian users there are outside of the US?
– The numbers make Crackberry and iPhone usage look plain silly.

If Google don’t pull their proverbial finger out and release Symbian apps for Gmail, Gcal (or GSync) and GTalk, current users will head to the growing “independent” producers.

And why does GMail IMAP still take soooooo long to get any data from the servers?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:36:59 +0000

As others have said, contact syncing is the BIG one that’s missing. Notebook would be nice, too. I mean, Yahoo can do it, so really, Google is playing catch-up here.

…then again, Yahoo’s calendar and notes interface are just plain yucky.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:30 +0000

Make it work with more carriers. Since Google won’t sign the Gmail app and t-Mobile won’t allow an unsigned app to run, I’m screwed. Yes, I want contact syncing etc… but I can’t really care about that until I can use it in the first place. Signing an app seems so basic that it’s frustrating I *still* cannot even run Gmail on my T-Mobile phone. Even if this is partially a T-Mobile issue, I’d like to see Google work with them to resolve the issue.

By: AlexC

AlexC — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:19:22 +0000

Ditto on the contact sync.

It would really be nice if Google Calendar offered CalDAV support, in place of the one-way iCal/XML support. It would help in a big way to remove businesses’ reliance on MS Exchange Servers.

Having a 3rd party app on the iPhone to sync its useless calendar would be nice too.

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By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:20:29 +0000

As others have said, Google would make a lot of us very happy if it were to develop a mobile app to sync mobile phone calendars with Google Calendar. Most desktop apps that support iCal (which rules out Outlook) can probably already do this but there’s not much available for smartphones.

By: BrilliantExpos

BrilliantExpos — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:47:50 +0000

How about syncing to my Nokia Symbian device? Also syncing with Mail.app for Macs.