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I asked Goosync if they could support the N900. They say no. Here is their reply

Stuart Etchells, Dec 09 10:20 (GMT):

Hi,

Unfortunately that device does not appear to be SyncML compliant for over-the-air synchronisation.

This means it would not be compatible with GooSync.

There are no plans to provide a sync application for this device.

use nueavasync

http://www.nuevasync.com/

Mike, How do you configure this for N900?

not sure (my n900 has not arrived)but one of the guys here has made it work. You need to specify the latest beta version I believe and it downloads to your phone what you need when you register.

It's simply dumb it doesn't support SyncML, but that's just my opinion....another point for the others to compare against.

I have the N900 and I also ordered the N97 so I am not fan boy of Apple. As a matter of fact, i sold my iphone the other day.

Ok figured this:
Go and sign up for a free account at www.nuevasync.com

Then edit your account settings to sync the calendars that you want and you will need to allow them to access your account in Google which will be a prompt when you login to google.

Then on the N900 - go into Settings - Mail for Exchange
and enter the following:

Server: www.nuevasync.com
Port: 443
Secure Connection

Then your nuevasync account details:
User Name: whatever you signed up with
Password: whatever password you setup with nuevasync
Domain: (Leave this blank)

If you go into the advanced settings then just make sure you select only the things that you want to synchronise. I made sure that I was just syncing my google calendar.

Just follow the onscreen instructions on the N900 and it should start to sync. Keep an eye out for error messages like problems connecting to the exchange server etc. I was getting problems with it just waiting to sync and I entered my nuevasync password again and it went through and sync'd no problem and very quickly.

Give it a try.

Hi All
As an Internet Tablet fiddler I dont really understand SyncMl and why we cant have it on the N900. Could someone explain
I have tried the nuevasync and it seems to work Ok. But as you can have only one Mail for Exchange it will be a problem for those people who need to sync with their Outlook

Be careful with nuevasync - it has caused me a lot of problems with contacts. Within the first couple hours of using, all contact IM designations were set to "other", a few I edited on the phone lost their picture both server and phone side. Several lost ALL phone numbers server and phone side.

I posted a detailed description in forum and they quickly came back and pointed me to an FAQ (that I read and says nothing more than some ambiguous mumbo jumbo) and didn't answer any of my questions. The only thing he really said was "it's rare for someone to have more than 3 or 4 numbers"- I don't agree with this and at least it's not in my world. PLUS I keep 7 numbers in my own contact that I use (work, work fax, home, home fax, youmail vm number, cell number, google voice) -heck if I'm going to remember them all since I've gotten used to relying on address books for years.

He also indicated that "some aspects" of what I described could use improvement (I read this to say, they know about the issues). Anyway, try it if you want, but personally, I'd stay away from it right now - I find MfE's kinks as big as they (pretty much unusable with calendar if you like to see your notes) are much smaller than nuevasync.

http://forum.nuevasync.com/forum/posts/list/324.page

Hi, you might want to try contact sync again as we fixed a bug relating to the N900 client over the weekend. However, there's nothing we can do about the schema issues --- this is set in stone by the Exchange sync protocol and we can't change it. As I mentioned in my reply on our forum, we do take some effort to use the available fields where possible. For example we will use the radio telephone field for any phone number that overflows the more common phone number fields. The protocol schema allows up to 8 phone numbers. It doesn't permit service scoping for IM addresses. Just to repeat: these are restrictions in the sync protocol itself, not in our service nor MfE.

I setup Nuevasync's service to snyc Google Calendar and Contacts to my N900 in the first 24-hours I had it.

That worked just fine for the first week. But over the weekend, I replaced it with direct syncing to Google via their Exchange ActiveSync service using these directions.

That's been working fine for days, both ways, and cuts out the middle-man of Nuevasync.

For the record, my device shipped from Dell with OS version 1.2009.42-11.002.

Your mileage may vary.