Google’s improved how its calendar and email services interact with Windows Phones running the Mango update . Users can now cram as much as 25 different calendars into the Metro OS’s built-in calendar app. The setup’s not exactly seamless; you must navigate your Windows Phone to the Google Sync page, login and check the boxes found there. While testing on our phones, although one device was capable of immediately sync, the alternative couldn’t pick up on our multiple calendars. We needed to delete and re-assign our Google account to the telephone with the intention to get it working. However, after we did, the Metro styling lent itself well to multiple calendar listings, with the flexibility (just like the web-based Google Calendar) to assign colors to every.
On the same Google Sync page, now you can decide to enable the “send mail as” feature in case you are using multiple addresses, with the choice to delete unwanted emails rather than archiving. However, apart from replying from a similar address which you received emails to, we’ve not discovered the way to assign new mails to our multiple guises. We were capable of send messages through our own Engadget mail account, although that’s then used on all future missives. Despite these rough edges, it remains a welcome little bit of extra functionality. Are we still yearning for a dedicated Gmail app? Definitely. We just hope those devs don’t drop the ball .
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