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FYI for other users that are switching to a G1:

Basically I am huge user of Outlook 2007 & the rest of the MS Office family

I have/had a T-Mobile Dash and I love it but its time to move on

The 2 biggest deals breakers for me was no tethering (sp?) with my laptop
and no sync for outlook (basically for calender as contacts get less updating and go directly on the phone)

Tether- hopefully someone will make it work (come on, I got the internet on my Dash for 5.99 with just 2 proxy settings)

Well back to the point.....

There are a couple of ways to get your contacts to your G1

First...
I tried downloading the Wrike program and guess what, it does not work because I don't have Exchange Server 2007 yet maybe 90% of this site doesn't either

Second...
I tried exporting my Outlook contacts into a CSV file then importing them into my Google contacts but some names did not come up properly, so that did not work

Third...
I finally decided just to load all my contacts from my old phone onto my SIM card (each phone varies on this process but it is pretty simple), then I popped into my G1.
After that, go to your contacts, click Menu, then settings, then SIM contacts importer.
BAM! it work perfectly, of course I do not get any emails with my contacts but names and numbers are more important

Now.. Outlook Calender Sync

Click or Copy Paste this link
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

Download the program which is made by Google and install it
And thats it!!!!

But it gets even better ..... Way better.


Now you can just modify everything thru Gmail on any computer at any time
Contacts - you can update emails,names, numbers and etc.
Calender - you can plan, update appointments and etc.

Contacts will sync between Gmail and your G1
Calender will sync between Outlook, Gmail and your G1

EVERYTHING WILL BE UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY WITH NO CABLES!!!
No more damn USB errors or forgetting to sync it!!!

I just wanted to post my experience so maybe it can help others

pestilence

Excellent find! Not having work calendar events in my phone was one of the few issues I wanted to take care of and google calendar sync handles it perfectly.

gewgluvr

Thanks for the tip ... but I discovered this solution yesterday. There are so many press and blog bytes about Android not syncing with Outlook and Exchange and it does!

TreyFefty

This isn't exactly syncing. Someone needs to write a real Exchange app for mail and calendar

Sivan

Whoever creates an Exchange syncing app will have to license ActiveSync from Microsoft. I'm pretty sure that Google didn't want to get into this mess when supporting an open source platform.

nustherapy

Great find thank you for pointing this out, i'm very happy already with the G1 and this just makes it that much better.

Flatman

But there is still no way to actually "sync" your contacts between google and outlook, right?

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Flatman

Found a program that will sync contacts and calendar both. Gsyncit. I am trying it out, but it seems to work well so far. $9.99 for the full version. Will let you guys know how it goes.

Hilly

You can import your contacts by using Thunderbird. Thunderbird will import all your Outlook data then by using the Thunderbird-Gmail add-on you can import them straight to GMail.

Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Gmail add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307

This article seems to indicate you can also use Lightning (Mozilla calendar add-on for Thunderbird) and sync your calendar too.
http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/15/android-gmail-and-thunderbird/

scottslc

I couldn't get this to work. (Gsyncit) I look forward to your experience. As a footnote, I wouldn't go back to activsync. Too much hassle, the google calendar sync is a way better system for keeping your calendar up to date.

Ash

Hi, I presume that you have successfully done the above ?

richy240

I'm sync'ing Outlook (and indirectly, Exchange) with Gmail and Google Calendar using gSyncIt. It works great, except for a couple speedbumps.

nightshiftc

The trick is to merge the cells for "First Name" and "Last Name" into one cell named "Name".

Hope that helps.

Flatman

Me too. It seems to work pretty smoothly so far. I am about to get the full version...

Spabe

I use SyncMyCal to synch outlook contacts and calendar and it seems to work great so far.

I7oobie

I can't get gsyncit to work, nor the google app. Seems to miss some appointments. If i can't get this fixed, i'm going to have to take it back.

Flatman

Are you using the full version or the trial?

I7oobie

Trial, but it only syncs about half of my calendar dates. Actually, Gsyncit didn't work, and the Google app only synced half of my dates...

Flatman

It worked perfectly for my calendar...hmmmm.

I7oobie

Work or home?

ryannosaurus.rexx

+1 for gSyncIt.

I7oobie

Got it to work, so +1 for gSynIt also...

Korwin

is gsyncit a program that needs to be physically running in order to work? does it work while my computer is shut off?

I'm trying to convince the boss that we need G-1s

Flatman

Nope, you need to leave Outlook open for it to continue to sync (at your defined intervals) with google.

Good luck...I wish my work would provide these for us

Flatman

Work.

Korwin

thanks!

i work for a really cool little company. they appreciate technology. the two owners have iphones and the rest of us use blackberries and win mobile phones. i have a dash, but i hate windows mobile, and android looks like a far better option to me.

Flatman

Yeah...I cam from a dash as well. I love my G1 10000000x better.