How to configure your iPhone to work with Gmail

Using your Gmail Email, Contacts, and Calendar on your iPhone

Well, with the new iPhone OS 4 you can link your email application on your iPhone to your Google account resources. If you make use of Google Email "Gmail", Google contacts, and Google calendar, now you have access to all three resources from you iPhone. But, you need to configure your phone first.

To start you need to know that you can not have more than one exchange account configured on your iPhone.  What that means?  Well, we are going to connect to your Google account via Microsoft Exchange tool on your iPhone, and it can only be configured to use one account.  So, we can only have one account of this type.
Steps to configure your Google account:

1. Go to your iPhone and tap Settings
2. In Settings find "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" and tap it
3. Find "Add Account..." at the bottom of the Accounts Section and tap it
4. You will see the following screen capture





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5. Tap "Microsoft Exchange" to Configure it
6. You will need to enter the following items as shown in the following screen capture:
1. Your Google email account address
2. Server name: n.google.com
3. Domain: Leave blank
4. User name: Enter your Google email address again
5. Password: Enter your Google Email account password
6. Description: A Description will be filled for you, you can change it if you want
7. Use SSL:  Make sure it is ON

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8. Once you are done, confirm your settings and you should get a screen asking to choose what services you want to enable Mail, Contacts, and Calendar

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9. You are done, you should be able to access all your Google resources from your iPhone.

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Links to Web sites:

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/09/22/google-sync-iphone-contacts-calendars-gmail/