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I am absurdly excited about this, mostly because I am in hate with my Droid.

However, the gmail and contacts integration on Droid is top notch. Am I going to be less happy on iphone?

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I sync my iPhone contacts with my Gmail account using Google's Exchange ActiveSync.

http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/

edit: no limit on accounts

Since 4.0 you can have multiple Exchange accounts.

Gmail and contacts syncing works great on iPhone. It uses Exchange to do all of the syncing, and it's quite fast. I had to get my phone exchanged, and all of my contacts and emails were synched in a few minutes after I got the new phone. Not sure what the other comments are talking about, you can use multiple Exchange accounts on iOS.

You're really limiting yourself not using a just even slightly newer phone. CM6 or even CM7 on the Droid Inc is waaaay faster than on my D1.

gmail on iphone sucks - because of apple

http://bugreporter.apple.com/

Well, considering most of the cloud integration goodness on iPhone is only possible with Google products, I don't think you can complain too much. iPhone is just as Google-dependent for the full experience as is Android. I will say that Google needs to develop a G-Mail app on par with its Android equivalent for iOS, but using the default mail client with IMAP works just fine in reality; it is the same basic experience as any other third party client.

Apple doesn't allow 3rd party mail clients.

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