I checked the link and that is how I have my gmail account setup on my phone but it does not support contacts only email, or at least I have not found the setting that supports the contacts. But thanks for the suggestion.
Now there was an article I had found about gmail emulating an Exchange server but I dropped Exchange support because VZW charges you $15 a month to connect to Exchange corporate email so I have not tried this connection feature of Gmail. I might but be warned that if you do it will ERASE everything on the phone so have a backup copy in an Outlook PST file or through Microsoft My Phone. I would think someone would have an app that could do it but I have not done a search yet.
Rusty