iPhone Dispatch Blog

“J” asked how you would sync your Google calendar to your iPhone. Well, one way would be to simply use Google Calendar directly with their iPhone interface. But, if you want your Google calendar events to show up in the native iPhone calendar app, then you simply need to subscribe to your Google calendar via your Mac’s iCal application. Do this by going into Google Calendar, managing your calendars, sharing them publicly, and then grabbing the iCal link in the Calendar Details page. Paste that into iCal. Then your iCal application will read from Google calendar, and your iPhone syncs with that.
Unfortunately, there is no way to reverse the process, so new items added via your iPhone will never make it to Google Calendar. And, don’t even ask me how to do this in Windows. No idea.

So, interesting thing: You can’t access the iTunes Store via Edge. I wanted to show someone the store last night, and a message came up instead of the store. I wonder if it is to avoid a bad user experience (slow) or that AT&T doesn’t want to foot the bandwidth bill for Apple’s music downloads.

Just downloaded iPhone software 1.1.1. The first new icon on the main screen is the iTunes music store. Browsing now.

Google just updated their calendar to work better on the iPhone, and it does. That’s a relief because we use it quite a bit in the office. It is the only good truly shared calendar out there. Now I can rely on getting my calendar info on my iPhone. My only complaint is that I can’t seem to switch back to the full Google Calendar app. I’m stuck in the iPhone version on my phone. That may prove to be an issue if I need to access a more advanced function.

Apple claims that unlocking your iPhone will potentially break it when a new update arrives. What do you think? Is Apple just trying to scare us, or are they trying to help us with a warning?
As a software guy, it seems somewhat plausible. Those unlocking techniques require firmware changes, and the new Apple update could conflict with that. My iPhone remains locked and unhacked, so I get the Apple experience, but I’m curious to see what happens. Heck, I’m still waiting for someone to answer this question: If you unlock your iPhone, and switch to, say. T-Mobile, how does does non-wifi browsing work? What is the Edge chip communicating with?