Comments on: A Closer Look at iCal, CalDAV, Google Calendar, and the iPhone

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:17:21 +0000

Ciao Guys,

For the macosx part of it i’ve not idea but for the iphone part:
Why not using the “activesync” mail/contact/calendar ota synch, it’s read/write and works quite well.
Or did I miss somethins, I’m using it with my Google Apps account and it work fine. And iit’s also available for “normal” gmail account.
Check: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740
Maybe I’m tottaly missing the point, if it’s the case sorry for that.

Kindly,

Damien

By: Mark Horner

Mark Horner — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:50:01 +0000

>The big limitation, for me at least, is that CalDAV calendars synced to the iPhone are, in fact, read-only.

Not in iPhone 3.0 They are two way

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:43 +0000

The already mentioned nuevasync has just added multiple Google calendar support to its feature list.
https://www.nuevasync.com/

By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:02:13 +0000

Are any of you actually using MobileMe in this equation? My frustration is this: I finally have my iCal/Google Calendar syncing just like I want them to… but iCal isn’t pushing out the Google Calendar events (which are the only events on there) to MobileMe. I looked at NuevaSync, but it seems to be made to act like MobileMe for folks who *don’t* already have it.

My solution for now? I continue to use a link to Google Calendar on my home screen. The real Calendar app has been pushed back to my last page of apps for a long time…

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:51:30 +0000

Philip,

I haven’t had the opportunity to work with iCal Server, so I can’t help much there. Judging from some other research I’ve done, if this friend of yours is doing over-the-air syncing, CalDAV won’t go over. Have her try USB/iTunes sync and see if that helps at all.

AndyM, Josh,

Thanks for the feedback on BusySync. I’m taking a much closer look now and we’ll see how things work out.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:20:02 +0000

I use BusySync, and I have been very pleased with it. When Gcal started supporting CalDav natively, I was concerned that my purchase of BusySync was in vain. However, as you have noticed, the read-only calendars on the iPhone is a major drawback. BusySync solves this and it updates fast.

By: AndyM

AndyM — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:49:22 +0000

Hi Scott, am in similar place as you, have been using BusySync and is really good. Down side though is it can’t to Over The Air.

Am not a regular syncer of my phone so that’s not the best.

Could check this out:
https://www.nuevasync.com/

Andy

By: Philip Sellers

Philip Sellers — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:03:34 +0000

I know this is off topic, but do you have any experience with Apple’s iCal Server product? I’m specifically having problems with a friend who has this implemented in her office. She is unable to get her CalDAV calendars to sync with her iPhone. I haven’t spent a lot of time looking at it myself, but she’s having problems getting this to happen – any advice? I assume the iCal Server and Google’s CalDAV calendars appear the same in iCal… If I can just get her to where she can see, but not change her appointments, that’d be better than what she has today.

I’ll say, its a fairly big let-down if Apple hasn’t gotten their own iCal Server product setup to be usable with an iPhone…