Nuevasync - Over-the-air calendar and contacts iPhone sync with google

I run windows, which means that up until a few minutes ago, I have been running the google calendar sync for a while now, and it works fine except that it obviously only syncs when I plug in my iPhone, it's yet another application running in the background, and it required outlook to be installed because outlook was what you needed to use to sync with itunes. Up until the 2.0 version of iPhone, contacts couldn't sync, but now of course they can, so the only downside was needing to plug in to sync. Not really a big deal of course for contacts.

Well, now there is a new solution, which I really like. Nuevasync.com is an over-the-air sync which will sync to any exchange server capable device, which of course because the iPhone does exchange, yeay! Nothing to install on your phone either. It will only currently sync gmail calendar (or google apps calendar) with the iPhone, but it will sync either Google Contacts or Plaxo contacts. Setup was easy as hell. You just sign up, confirm your email address, and then log in. Once you are in, you need to setup each item, calendar and contacts, to authorize access to your accounts at google via the new google API. Fairly idiot proof, its just entering your googleID which is your email address there, and click a few times, and viola, your done.

Setup on the iPhone was also monkey simple.

I did a quick test to make sure it all worked. Added a test appointment to my google calendar, and a few seconds later, boom! it was on the iPhone, over the air. Then i deleted the appointment from the phone, and with a refresh of google calendar, it was gone there. YEAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two way calendar sync.

Now for the windows folks this in not that big of a deal probably because of Google Calendar Sync, but the Mac folks can now rejoice because they have only had 1 way sync via iCal, pulling from google down to the iPhone only. Of course both have two way contact sync via iTunes with the 2.0 release on iPhone, but now, no more issues.

Currently it's free and in Beta, but frankly i'd pay for it, assuming it was cheap like $10/year. Apparently the company that created it is using it as a testbed for a protocol they are developing, and will probably have some big beefy version for pay. But hell, this alone might be a business. Check it out if you have an iPhone or even a windows mobile device and want to sync with google calendar or google contacts or plaxo contacts.