More on iPhone Push

OK. So in my quest for a good push solution for my contacts and calendars, I signed up for a MobileMe trial account, imported all my contacts from Google to it (export to VCard and import it in Me), and started to export my emails to it as well (using Mail.app on my MacBook via IMAP). But I decided not to go ahead with MobileMe for the following reasons:

1. It doesn’t support custom domains (like sajadi.co.uk which is mine) at the moment so I have to keep my hosting for this email address and forward it to Me and then setup the outgoing SMTP server to send it from my host or use the Reply-to solution which is even less elegant in my opinion.
2. Google (Google Apps in my case) does a brilliant job in filtering spam. I hardly get any passed the filters these days. Forwarding from my Google to Me can benefit from filters though.
3. The search features are not as strong as Google’s. No need for proof I guess!
4. The interface is still buggy. Not much but not as good as Google’s.
5. There are loads of tools out there for Google integration: Calendar Synchronises and more. This means I can use my Google calendars with my work Outlook and lots more (like subscribing to iCal feeds,…)

All this means that shelling out £60 for a MobileMe account is not a good idea. Also the sync on Mac and PC is not instant but every 15 minutes (you wonder how they can do it on a mobile device but not a PC or even Mac)

I mentioned earlier that I am a bit skeptical about NuevaSync because it is in beta, but I still gave them a shot and I’m glad to say that they’ve surprised me nicely. The service has worked flawlessly so far, it syncs my contacts with Google seamlessly (including pictures which is very nice) and is quick and responsive. As for the calendar, since I have 5 different calendars in my Google account and NuevaSync displays them in one iPhone calendar I’m still holding out of that service, but they’ve promised to fix this in future.

I wish NeaveSync best of luck and hope Google buys them (if they want the money!)