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BlackBerry Addicts: Sync Your Phone With Google Apps

Written by Steven Walling / August 21, 2009 2:28 PM / 5 Comments

gmaillogo2.gifSyncing with BlackBerry Enterprise server has long been one of the most requested features among Google Apps customers. Especially within the BlackBerry-dominated enterprise space, the fact that there was no way to easily integrate the two platforms was a huge disadvantage.

But starting today customers can get their hands on a Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise. This means that for the first time, users can get good synchronization of core applications like Gmail and Google Calendar for the first time.

The new Connector they launched today will give you some fairly high-quality results. Emails sent to Gmail aren't true push, but they'll show up within 60 seconds. You can also read and delete emails and Calendar items with full unity with the online backup; Gmail labels will even translate into BlackBerry folders.

Google has been public about plans to get this feature out the door since May, but it's been a long time coming. Since the company decided that Apps was something they wanted to sell to enterprises, lack of integration with BlackBerry Enterprise server has been an impediment to making that sale. Now that's changed.


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  1. This is really a good news to all Blackberry users like me.

    Posted by: MicroMixx | August 22, 2009 3:36 AM



  2. Great News!
    Thanks a lot for the post

    Posted by: Jayesh | August 22, 2009 3:49 AM



  3. Finally, thanks for the news RWW.

    Posted by: ITrush | August 22, 2009 4:25 AM



  4. another Produkt from Google..., in 10 yaers the whole wide world (and not only the world wide web) is an Google.

    Posted by: Strichcode | August 24, 2009 12:37 AM



  5. google will be everwhere.google map,google docs,google browser,gphone:)

    Posted by: Fango Ono | October 14, 2009 8:43 PM



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