We’ve featured Goosync a number of times before, and we have been users of the service for some time now. Two pieces of news have happened in the last few weeks regarding Goosync.

Firstly, GooSync now supports up to 4 different devices (on the Premium service only). This allows you to sync your Google data onto multiple devices without hitting lots of sync problems.

Secondly, Symbian Guru have produced a detailed review of the service. Head here to read more. Their main issue with it is the lack of automatic sync capability, but equally we like the fact it uses the built in Sync functionality of the devices, not needed additional software (and the native Sync application does not support regular scheduled syncs). Also, they mention the ability for GooSync to support multiple calendars, and this can be enhanced further by the use of a third party Calendar application, Papyrus, which supports the GooSync way of creating separate categories for your separate Google calendars. Papyrus is in the process of being renamed as Calendar by the authors.

Google have announced support for CalDAV, which allows a whole range of additional applications which can now natively sync their data with Google. Over at Lifehacker, they’ve written up a long article on how to configure this for a number of applications. These include Microsoft Outlook (via Google’s Outlook Calendar Sync program, which is free), Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal , and Mobile devices.

On that final point, they mention Goosync as one method of syncing your mobile to Google, and it’s one we use all the time. If you are an existing subscriber, they are currently offering a July only (which means it ends today) special offer to upgrade your account to a Lifetime subscription for only £20 (a saving of £20). If you aren’t a member, then sign up and you can get that Lifetime sub for £40.

Thanks to James Whatley of SpinVox for pointing out the Lifehacker article.

If you were nervous about using Goosync before as you have to provide them with your Google username and password, fear not, as Goosync have just announced they are now using Google’s authentication service removing this requirement. Goosync allows you to sync (via syncML) your calendar directly to your Google Calendar.

Goosync have added support for Tasks, on top of Contacts and the original Calendar functionality. In the same way as Contacts, the functionality is to sync from your SyncML device to the Goosync server only, as there is no API to allow them to directly sync your Tasks to the Google servers. However, it still allows Goosync to act as a Backup facility for your main data.

Google have just announced their Outlook sync support to allow you to sync your Outlook Calendar directly with Google Calendar. For those of us who use solutions such as Goosync to keep our mobile phones and smartphones synced with Google Calendar, the ability to sync this directly with Outlook is a welcome feature. More information here.

Last week Google launched Google Sync for Mobile, an application for keeping your mobile phone in sync with your Google Calendar. This is a BlackBerry only solution at the moment, although there are plenty of alternatives for smartphones, such as GooSync, which will work with any SyncML client. Once downloaded and installed, it automatically keeps your BlackBerry calendar in sync with your Google Calendar.

If you have a BlackBerry, and want to try it out (and have the ability to browse and install new applications), then head to http://m.google.com/sync on your BlackBerry browser.

Goosync have updated their website to state they now have iPhone support for their solution. They are planning a native SyncML client for release in Q1 2008, but until then, they have written up how to perform the sync.

In essence, you use iTunes to sync the iPhone to Outlook, and then use a free Outlook SyncML client to sync Outlook with Goosync, which handles the sync with your Google Calendar.

GooSync, well known for it’s ability to sync your mobile device’s Calendar with Google Calendar, has now launched it’s Google Contacts Sync support, which has been in beta for a few months. Due to limitations in the Google Contacts API, they cannot sync directly between the mobile device and Google, but instead offer a facility to sync your mobile device to their website, and then offer a manual import / export export which is compatible with both Google and other apps, such as Outlook.