Sync Blackberry with ICloud

Could googles announcement today help with cross platform syncing at all?

i think possibly...http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2753077

Hello! Just my 5 cents.

You can also try AstraSync: http://astrasync.com

This is application, that adds Exchange support to Blackberrys. You can sync contacts, mail, calendars, including Google accounts.

How exactly does setting up the CardDAV account help one to sync blackberry contacts? I have reviewed the process in the link you have provided here. It appears to have the same functionality of an iCloud account as far as apple devices are concerned - except now instead of using iCloud as the central source, by setting up the CardDAV account, one changes the default 'mother' account to a google account. And how exactly does this help make it easier to sync to a blackberry?

Thanks.

astrasync.com is ok, but it is not a direct sync with icloud. you would have to get gmail or one of the other supported devices to sync with icloud.

It has taken Apple years to get a real world usable relationship between the desktop and Apple TV.

After 6 years and 4 iterations Airplay the latest incarnation is pretty darn amazing.

ICloud is stil lin the baby days of MobileMe and a little bit...not being able to sync non apple files to ones iCloud demonstrates that Apple does not yet understand cloud based workflow.

Having a closed architecture for apps is fine but having a closed architecture for content will orphan iCloud if they don't figure out the cloud as an extensionof our geographically local lives.

We can only hope that someday syncing our world with iCloud will be like Airplay - it will just work.

So.....when I get my new BB10 in a few weeks will I be able to subscribe to my icloud calendars and contacts?

I don't have my PB with me right now, but AFAIR I've never managed to get iCloud's CardDAV protocol to work outside Apple devices (because a fully-specified URL is required and most clients don't support that?)

I do have full access to all my iCloud calendars from my PB, though, with just the occasional syncing refresh lag.

I see no reason why this would evolve in the wrong direction with BB10 ... unless Apple has one of their overly compelling reasons it should! (But then again they never killed the CalDAV backdoor to iCloud in Snow Leopard's iCal 😉 )

RJV Bertin wrote:

I don't have my PB with me right now, but AFAIR I've never managed to get iCloud's CardDAV protocol to work outside Apple devices (because a fully-specified URL is required and most clients don't support that?)

I do have full access to all my iCloud calendars from my PB, though, with just the occasional syncing refresh lag.

I see no reason why this would evolve in the wrong direction with BB10 ... unless Apple has one of their overly compelling reasons it should! (But then again they never killed the CalDAV backdoor to iCloud in Snow Leopard's iCal 😉 )

Never was a 'backdoor' in iCloud, the CalDav protocol was there from day one, publicly, maybe you mean Mobile Me, which switched to CalDav (again publicly). What 'backdoor' are you imagining?

I think now that Google no longer supports Google Sync on the RIM - ther is no longer any way to sync Blackberry devices to Apple OR Google Calenders now.

I really want to be wrong - but Blackberry is so orphaned - unless THEY build it into their Mac desktop tool we too are digital orphans on BB's.

Read my post, you CAN sync with Apple's calendars via CalDAv, and those of us who set up Google Sync before it was discontinued can still use it.

I wouldn't put my hope up on RIM's Mac desktop tool, though. It never worked for me. I just installed the minimum set of drivers that add an internet port (en2) when I connect the PB over USB, which allows me to mount the PB as a remote drive (and to side-load apps with the Google Chrome extension)

As to calling CalDAV to iCloud a backdoor - of course I'm aware that this is the protocol that iCal uses on 10.7+ and on iOS. But does Apple tell us how to connect from earlier iCal versions or other CalDAV clients, what to put on the server field and elsewhere in the configuration settings, etc? IIRC this information was sniffed out by looking at the network traffic, and that's why I used the term backdoor.

RJV Bertin wrote:

As to calling CalDAV to iCloud a backdoor - of course I'm aware that this is the protocol that iCal uses on 10.7+ and on iOS. But does Apple tell us how to connect from earlier iCal versions or other CalDAV clients,

Yes it does, in iCal/Calendar (or at the website) select the calendar, go to Sharing Settings and copy the url to the clipboard. That's all you need.

Wough - this is big...you CAN get your Blackberry calender to sync with your iCal calender? (and bi direcitonallty??)

I agree - RIM won't fix it and i prefer iCal to googles anyway .

Can you walk us though how you get a sync between the two? ( I don't see your original post RJV)

Thx, in advance.

Arthur Bell wrote:

Wough - this is big...you CAN get your Blackberry calender to sync with your iCal calender? (and bi direcitonallty??)

I use it to suscribe to my iCloud calendar from Google, it should work with any Dav compliant system but I have not tried with a Blackberry.

In your PB's Account list, add a new CalDAV account. For user name and email, use your iCloud identifier, and fill in the password. The server is p06-caldav.icloud.com . That's all that ought to be necessary, your iCloud/iCal calendars should now show up in the PB's calendar app.

I also added a CardDAV account, replacing the server name with contacts.icloud.com . That is accepted, but I don't have the impression that this serves any purpose. The fact that the PB's contacts app doesn't allow you to search (or create new entries) in a specific account doesn't make the testing any more straightforward. Then again that's how it is in "Address Book" too (under 10.6.8 that is) - the account is accepted and active, but any contacts I add don't appear on icloud.com, and vice versa.