Contacts and calendar from WinMo to Evo?

[tokuzumi]

Originally Posted by Da Uniq 1

I'm confused. Let me simplify my question.

I have Winmo. I'm going to Android EVO when it comes out.

I already have a Gmail acct and the contacts are simply mirrored from my yahoo.

I have certain info in yahoo vs my phone which is why I never set up a yahoo acct on the winmo phone.

Example. My brother. On my Win Mo, I've got 3 email addresses for him and 4 phone #'s. In Gmail, I have those 2 different address and one different phone #.

When I get any android device and Bluetooth the info from Win Mo to Android so I can have the specific info I want on the phone, if I use my existing gmail acct to log into the android device, will the phone info and gmail info get merged?

Cuz to me it sounds like I'm gonna have to revamp my gmail acct or use a different one.

Thanks in advance

I used to sync my contacts via HTC Sync, using Outlook. It put all of those contacts under a "Phone" group. The Gmail contacts were under a "Gmail" group. I was able to see them all, grouped together. In your example, you will see your brother twice in the list.

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by tokuzumi

I used to sync my contacts via HTC Sync, using Outlook. It put all of those contacts under a "Phone" group. The Gmail contacts were under a "Gmail" group. I was able to see them all, grouped together. In your example, you will see your brother twice in the list.

Wait, I never knew there was an option to Sync an Android from Outlook. Does it also Sync from Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, or Outlook Express?

Also, if you use the HTC Sync and do that, does it bring over all the fields, the notes, and the catagory? Does it do the calendar and tasks too?

And after all that, is there a way to merge it with gmail so you only have 1 contact list and it is backed up in the cloud?

[tokuzumi]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

Wait, I never knew there was an option to Sync an Android from Outlook. Does it also Sync from Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, or Outlook Express?

Also, if you use the HTC Sync and do that, does it bring over all the fields, the notes, and the catagory? Does it do the calendar and tasks too?

And after all that, is there a way to merge it with gmail so you only have 1 contact list and it is backed up in the cloud?

I've only used it with Outlook (office 2003), and to sync contacts. It brought over everything I needed it to bring over, which was just the contact names/numbers. It does not bring over categories, apparently, which was Salty's purpose for this post. Not sure about tasks, or calendar.

The contacts that you sync to the phone via HTC Sync are kept in a separate group, "Phone", and don't sync with your gmail account. In order to have your outlook contacts in Gmail (at least the way I did it), was to export your contacts from outlook into a CSV. Then, upload that CSV to your gmail account (I setup a separate gmail account for contacts only). From there, I didn't need outlook anymore.