Progress on the Sync’ing Front

Since iPhone 3.0 includes support for CalDAV calendar sync’ing, I am finally able to separate my home calendar from my work calendar.
Setting it up was easy: Google Calendar speaks CalDAV to the iPhone

Now I gotta figure out how to have second and third calendars working.
I still really want to have my contacts’ birthdays auto-added to my iPhone Calendar. iCal does it, why doesn’t iPhone?

iPhowner

Confession time:

Until this weekend, I had never owned an Apple portable device. That’s right, I’ve never owned an iPod. Weird, huh? For such technophile, I would’ve expected me to have lots of them. Nope. I spent like $35 on a cheap Zen Nano to take to the gym and that’s the only portable music device I’ve owned since my portable CD player got stolen out of my friend’s car four years ago.

Also, until this weekend, I had never had my own cell phone. Every job I’ve had for the last 3 years has provided me a cell phone. This has meant, of course, that every time I change jobs, I get a new number. This one is finally mine.

I passed on the first-gen iPhone for two reasons: initial cost and low bandwidth.

iPhone 3G solved both of those problems, so I got one.

It’s glorious.

I still haven’t figured everything out on it and am not using it to its potential, but I’m getting there.

Here are a few things that I would like to see, so if you know something I don’t, please share.

The “slide to unlock” screen should show my last couple of emails/txts, today’s weather, etc. Right now it’s a pointless (but gorgeous) picture of Earth. I want to glance at my phone and get useful information, not have to unlock it.

VNC. Mocha VNC Lite came out today. Awesome. Remote control my computer from my iPhone.

Google everything. You did it for BlackBerry (RIP, RIM). Do it for iPhone. A browser interface is not an appropriate solution.

Auto On/Off. Or at least auto plane mode. I don’t need to receive emails, browse the web, send texts, etc. while I’m sleeping. I’d rather save some battery and put this thing to sleep for a few hours every night.

It’s easy to criticize, but these are simple features that I’m used to having and miss – like MMS, video, copy/paste, etc.

Apple, you guys have done a great job, take a break. Google, get on it. You developed a great suite for a dying handset. Do it again for us.