Google Sync support for the Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile smartphones, and SyncML compatible devices. The service synchronizes contacts and calendar appointments from an iPhone or Windows Mobile smartphone with Google Gmail contacts and the Google Calendar system.

Google Sync was already available for Blackberry users and you could already sync your Gmail contacts on the iPhone through iTunes. This, however, was relatively inconvenient and Google surely heard a lot of complaints from business users who needed more ‘Outlook-like’ capabilities on their phones.

The new sync capabilities are also available for any other phone that supports the SyncML standard