If you have Snow Leopard, Adress Book has the ability to sync with your Google Contacts (Preferences->Accounts) and iCal has the ability to add your Google Calendar (also under Preferences->Accounts).
As for media... don't know, I just manually copy the media I want to the android phone by mounting the SD card...
So does this mean that Droid will sync with mac email no problem? and it won't cost me the more expensive data plan. i believe that is just for corporate exchange servers, which i don't believe mac would fall under that category. and it sounds like you're saying if i have snow leopard i should be able to sync my calendars on my phone with my iCal events on my computer wirelessly. i hope so. that's what i really want. i think if the droid plays nice with my mac then i'm on board. otherwise i'll just stick with what works, my BB curve. but boy the droid is sweet. played with it at store. i likey
Android, out of box, will always sync fairly seamlessly with a Google account. (Gmail contacts, Google Calendar.) Short of something that shoehorns data onto an Android (see: Mark/Space's MissingSync for Android) without over-the-air synching, that means the only way to get that data onto your Android is through either your Google account, or an Exchange sync account (if you use the Corporate setup).
So, this means to get your data off of your Mac and onto your Android phone, you need
On Snow Leopard, you can have iCal and Address Book sync to your Google Account directly (thus synching over-the-air to your Android device), and on earlier versions of Mac OS X, you can get the (unfortunately not free) SpanningSync, which provides similar Google account integration.
I assume 'Mac email' means you're using MobileMe/.Mac/whatever Apple's calling it this year. Like Gmail, MobileMe can be accessed over various methods; not only Apple's own Exchange-style push-sync (used by the iPhone and iPod Touch), but MobileMe's mail is also accessible via just standard, no-frills IMAP. You can thus set up your MobileMe account on your Android phone as a standard IMAP account:
IMAP: mail.me.com
SMTP: smtp.me.com
Use SSL and authentication on both. Et voila, MobileMe mail on anything which supports IMAP, including Android.
I just tried to set up my mobileme account.
It actually recognized it off my name/password and downloaded my emails BUT, the email program kept shutting down until I could remove the Mobile Account.
I tried setting it up manually using IMAP settings but the droid would not accept those settings.
Has anyone had success getting a MobileMe account set up on the Droid?
If so, did you have shutdown issues? How did you resolve them?
thanks!
Has anyone actually tested the claim that iCal and Address Book on the Mac (Snow Leopard) syncs with Google Calendar and Google Contacts? I spent the better part of a week trying to get this to work and finally, after finding that the *best* I could get was one-way syncing (from Google to my Mac) of contacts, I gave up.
I'd very much like to speak with someone who has had a different experience. My contacts and calendars all live on my Mac and I'd need to sync this information in TWO DIRECTIONS with Google applications in order to sync a Verizon Android device with my existing contact and calendar info. As it currently stands, my experience is that this can't be done, meaning that -- at present at least -- Mac users are not going to be able to switch to one of these Verizon devices. Which is a shame.
I used to use SpanningSync or BusySync to keep my Macs in sync with Google. Under Snow Leopard, I've been able to use Apple's own Google syncing without any problem. HOWEVER, the one issue is that Apple's own Google Sync works through the iSync conduit, and there's not many ways to trigger that if you don't have an iPod, an iPhone, an already-supported mobile phone or a MobileMe account. (Touching off a sync to any of those will start a sync conduit session, and thus trigger the Google sync as well.)
BusySync or Spanning Sync, while both also use the sync conduits as well (meaning sync data gets preserved in the same way), do offer ways to start a sync by hand. Unfortunately, they're pay solutions while Apple's own integration is free.
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