Philipp Lenssen

Finally! I have needed this for my iPhone. I bought some shareware that does it, but it doesn't work very well. - Bret Taylor

Great news! I've been waiting for this since Gcal launched. - Andrei M. Marinescu

Bret does that work on the iPhone? I thought it's just a Windows exe... - Philipp Lenssen

i have use this function before, and do not like ,because i use gmail web client - qian

So the iPhone only syncs Outlook calendars. It doesn't even sync "web calendars" (i.e., it can't sync an ical calendar from Outlook, at least as far as I could tell). So my iPhone method is to sync Google Calendar to Outlook, then sync Outlook to iPhone. If there is a better way for iPhone, I would love to hear it. I was flabbergasted the iPhone calendar didn't support the ical format or any internet connectivity by default. - Bret Taylor

Why don't you use Google Calendar directly on iPhone's Safari? (This question may be stupid, because again I don't have an iPhone.) - Philipp Lenssen

The main reason is alerts and reminders. I sit programming, and I need my phone to ding at me if I need to leave for a meeting. - Bret Taylor

Wonder if SMS reminders would do (that's probably costly) or if you can get iPhone to ping you when you get a new email reminder from Google Calendar, perhaps only when using a certain subject keyword. Google Calendar has a "5 minutes before" reminder setting... - Philipp Lenssen

Now I'm no longer a liar when I said that this would be coming "soon" when we launched Calendar -- at least for some value of "soon". ;) Glad to see this live -- haven't tried it, but I hear its very solid. - Carl Sjogreen

...and Philipp, at least in the states, its free to receive SMS messages and GCal doesn't charge. - Carl Sjogreen

SMS message recipients are charged by some major carriers... - Voyagerfan5761

I use the Google Sync with my BlackBerry, which automagically syncs my GCal and Outlook cal via BlackBerry service. Pretty neat! http://abhishek.tiwari.com/200... - Abhishek Tiwari