AOL Takes Calendar and Address Book Mobile
Posted Nov 20th 2008 11:37AM by Webmail Team
New AOL Sync Feature Allows Real-Time Mobile Updates to AOL Calendar and Address Book
By Mike Chowla, Principal Product Manager, AOL Mail
AOL introduced the new AOL Sync for beta testing at http://aolsync.aol.com. The new features let users sync their AOL Calendar and Address Book with a wide range of mobile devices including the iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, and many phones from Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. AOL Sync supports "Over the Air" synchronization so users can make real-time updates to their calendar and list of contacts over the cell network. In addition, AOL Sync also supports synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook.
To bring users the Sync feature that makes calendar and address book access a portable and 100% mobile experience, AOL partnered with Funambol, the open source provider of push email and mobile sync for the mass market. Funambol's open source approach to making push e-mail and mobile data available on any device means AOL users can now access their personal information anywhere, anytime.
To get started with the new AOL Sync, check out the demo below.
To set up AOL Sync
1) Go to http://aolsync.aol.com/
2) Click "Register your phone"
3) Enter your mobile number, mobile carrier and device manufacturer and click "Send Code"
4) When the verification code arrives on your mobile phone, enter it and click "Verify"
5) Select your phone model and click "Continue"
6) To sync additional calendars or auto added contacts, check them; Click "Configure Now"
7) For iPhone*, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices, the next step is to download a sync client; For other devices, you'll receive instructions on how to configure your phone's built-in sync client
*iPhone users must download the app from Apple's App Store.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Very impressive.
When do you think the great technical and innovative expertise at AOL will be able to clean up the mess that is my mailbox? I have only complained about this 20 or 30 times.
My Compose box is hidden by web search text. Frequently, my inbox is hidden from view.
These cannot be that hard to fix, can they?
All of your boasting is nice, but in reality, you can't back any of it up with real fixes to real problems. Which makes you nothing more than an empty suit.
ML Smith
Posted at 5:16PM on Nov 21st 2008 by buytextual
2. @ ML Smith/buytextual: Thank you. I seriously appreciate your feedback and I highly value any kind of comment regarding our webmail product. Regarding your specific issue: It seems your browser window or monitor resolution is to small to properly display webmail and to fully benefit from all the available functionality. I do agree that it is a nasty thing if all the elements don't fit. While we try to support all possible configurations our users might have, it is really challenging to support all of them out there. So I am really sorry it does not work for you the way it should. While we will look into this particular issue and try to make it less painful for cases like yours, there are a couple of options you might have: Increase the monitor resolution or browser window size. If this is not an option for you, try our basic mail product: http://basic.webmail.aol.com
Please continue to send feedback - also feel free to send it directly to me.
Marcel, AOL Webmail Team
Posted at 2:49PM on Nov 24th 2008 by marcelbmbecker
3. Fumambol is a great pick for your sync partner and Aol Sync is a great idea. However, please let me offer a suggestion so that I can use it. It would be very nice to be able to sync ONLY contacts or ONLY calendars with AOL Sync. Right now you MUST sync both. I have MS exchange for my calendar; however, I would like to use AOL mail and sync my contacts to my Iphone (using AOL sync and Fumambol's iPhone app.). Right now I can't do it because AOL syncs both the calendar and the contacts :(
Posted at 5:32AM on Nov 30th 2008 by ET
4. Please fix one of the sync bugs for display name. With the iphone many of my contacts are companies that don't have a first and last name, but in AOL webmail, it shows the contact blank. Please add the option to pull the company name as the display if no first or last name is present.
Thanks!
Posted at 10:04AM on Dec 4th 2008 by Brad
5. do not let anyone read anything this mails or enter my passwords without the confirmation passwords two passwords and one is normal and but for any futher pls use that confirm number of password that way know it is not me on the line someone try hack in my e mail if happen pls report me and i will try take care of that matters
Posted at 11:27PM on Dec 7th 2008 by pncervantes
6. When will sync support for Blackberry Storm be added?
Posted at 10:47PM on Jan 11th 2009 by johnflemingjr
7. Earlier today all at once my email changed and when I try to write an email it will not bring up my address book to automatically put emails in as I list names, it did it at 10am and by noon a different look was there to email and only compose for writing an email that does not recognize address book name apparently, What can I do?
Posted at 5:29PM on Feb 2nd 2009 by cbettykay