"The tricky thing about sync is that the GMail and Outlook contact data fields are totally different."
Personally, I have significant objections to using GMail, the least of which is that Google gets to mine whatever info I put up there. As a non-US person my information is also subject to inspection by various US agencies (I have nothing to hide - I just don't see a need for it, and if I were a US resident, I'd feel the same.) As well, the GMail notes field doesn't sync properly with the notes fields on the Android contacts folder = there appears to be some form of character limit that truncates the field.
So - why use GMail at all? Why not develop an "activesync" clone that simply duplicates what activesync does on a WinMo machine?
In my case I have both an Exchange Server (work) and Outlook (home) to deal with. I sync mail to both Exchange and Outlook, but Contacts, Tasks and Calendar to home Outlook only. All I want is a simple app that grabs my Contracts and Calendar items (I can live without tasks
) and drops them on my phone.
What I'd LOVE is something that does that AND allow my Exchange calendar to live separately - but viewable overlapped with the home one. No-one makes an app like that - anywhere. I can't be the only person who wants this.
For me the phone is a business tool - I could care less about the camera, youtube crap etc. I need connectedness and it needs to be right. Simple?
I hope so!