iCould is good. But, I still find the services from Google are better.
But, how to get Google Mail, Contact and Calendar on to iPhone with iCloud enabled?
1. Add your gmail account as a GMAIL account in iPhone which will enable the mail and calendar syncing
2. Again, second time, add your gmail account into iPhone, but as an EXCHANGE account, with m.google.com as server, empty domain, full email address as user name, and disable mail and calendar. Google's exchange will sync the contact to your phone! WOW Why not use exchange to handle all three? As stated in the original discussion
From what I understand, using Exchange to sync gmail and calendar is battery inefficient compared to using the Gmail account type. So, that's why I think it's better to use the two different account types. Otherwise, one could just use the Exchange account type and not mess with the Gmail account type. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of that!
There is one drawback. What you will find in your iPhone contact is that there are two groups, one from iCloud, which is a mirror of things in Mac Address Book; the other from Google. If view them all, you will see many duplicates. Oh well, at least have to stay that way for now...
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