Thread: N900: Support for Google Calendar and Contacts?
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edQ is offline edQ
2010-03-12 , 04:43
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Originally Posted by myk View Post
edQ, I think you may be confused about what MfE is. (or am I?)
MfE is not a standard. It is software from microsoft. The N900 supports Exchange 2003 and 2007.
Google does not use exchange, but emulates it. This does not work with N900, so whose fault? Nobody! because there is no specification to follow.
Its the fault of all of us for using a non-standard sync mechanism. Its the fault of Microsoft for being evil and proprietary.
Yeah don't think I referred to MfE was a standard. Sorry if you misunderstood. The thread is on getting Google calendar and contacts to sync with N900. I found a way to sync not only contacts and calendar but email as well using MfE. It solved an issue I was having and thought others might find useful.

As for whose fault I lean toward Nokia at this point. Google may be emulating exchange but My E71 using MfE worked flawlessly with Google; my wife's iPhone using MfE also works with Google. So most MfE clients work fine with whatever Google is doing; except the N900 client.