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Google Monday announced that it is adding support for Microsoft’s ActiveSync to Google Sync, which will give iPhone and Windows Mobile offline access to their Google calendars and Gmail contacts from their mobile applications.

Google already supports calendar and contact synchronization via Google Synch on the BlackBerry and on its own Android mobile platform. The Android sync is a technology developed by Google and built into Google Apps.

The Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support means users can sync Google Calendars and Gmail Contacts information with the ActiveSync compatible calendar and contact applications they run on their iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. The synchronization happens in real-time so when a contact or calendar entry is added or upgraded in Google Apps it is updated with applications on the mobile device.

As part of the announcement Google said it also has added contact sync for mobile devices that support SyncML, a platform independent synchronization standard.

via Google adds ActiveSync to accommodate iPhone, Win Mobile – Network World.

Now that’s a workaround–

Syncing notes with the iPhone

On my Treo 650, I used to sync notes between its Memos app and a desktop application using The Missing Sync, but of course you can’t sync the iPhone’s Notes application with anything. Then it occurred to me that each contact has a notes field, so I created a fake contact and pasted in all of the info I like to keep with me in the notes field for that contact in Address Book. One sync later and all that info was again at my fingertips. It’s also a good way to hide your info if you lose your iPhone (better than, say, the Notes app).

via iPhone Central: Syncing notes with the iPhone.