As I have previously mentioned on this blog, I have a Nokia 770 internet tablet to replace my old Palm T3. While the 802.11g WiFi, bluetooth, hi resolution screen and full screen thumb-board are all welcome, it does have a lack of PDA functionality. Fortunately for me, this can easily be added with GPE. There is an address book, task manager, calendar and other goodies available in Maemo form on maemo.org.

So now I have a calendar on my N770. It's not as polished as the Palm calendar, and there are some niggling rendering bugs, but it works and does the job. Most importantly, though, it does something the Palm never could: synchronise easily with Google Calendar.

Thanks to the wonderful Erminig application, I can synchronise multiple calendars (e.g. my calendar, my friends' calendars, bank holidays) into separate GPE calendars that I can enable and disable at will, but all visible in the same calendar interface distinguished by colour. This all happens straight from the N770, so no PC sync is required as it is with the Palm devices.

So far it's worked flawlessly. It's really easy to use, and it's made synchronisation of calendars a useful tool to me, rather than just a means of backing up my portable device.