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iPhone Google contacts sync

If you would like to sync your Google contacts with your iPhone, then you are at the right place. There are lots of local and over-the-air sync options to sync your google contacts with your iPhone. There are lots of third party applications that makes it happen too.

Official iTunes way

iTunes version 7.7 or later supports a feature which allows to sync Google contacts with your iPhone. All you got to do is just provide your Google login credentials to iTunes and iTunes will do the rest for you. Let me go with the traditional step-by-step How to Instructions to sync your google contacts with the iPhone.

Sync Steps

  1. Connect your iPhone to the PC and iTunes should automatically fire up
  2. Choose your iPhone from the iTunes device list
  3. Browse to the contacts section of the Info tab in iTunes
  4. Choose Google Contacts in the configuration option. This step slightly varies in iTunes(WIndows) and iTunes (Mac)
  5. Configure your Gmail/Google Username and Password and click OK/Apply
  6. Click Sync and you are done. Your Google contacts will sync with your iPhone next time.

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December 14th, 2008 Posted by kuberan | iphone | no comments

iPhone GPS and Maps

iPhone 3G came with a very new and important feature, the GPS capability, which is integrated along with Google Maps. The GPS technology along with iPhone software, together would present a totally different mobile mapping interface.GPS means Global Positioning System. It uses information from earth-orbiting satellites to find your present location. A receiver estimates the distance to GPS satellites based on the time it takes for signals to reach it, then uses that information to identify its location. But there is more. iPhone 3G uses not only the GPS technology, but A-GPS , i.e, it tracks your location through the Wi-Fi signals and the information from cellular towers to determine a more accurate location. Thus, in a sense , the GPS technology helps us get a better location.

In iPhone 3G, if GPS is available, the iPhone displays a blue GPS indicator. But if you’re inside — without a clear line of sight to a GPS satellite — iPhone finds you via Wi-Fi. If you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi hot spot, iPhone finds you using cellular towers. And the size of a location circle tells you how accurately iPhone is able to calculate that location: The smaller the circle, the more accurate the location.

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December 7th, 2008 Posted by Pranay | iphone | no comments