The concept is to keep your contact and calendar data stored on the Google cloud and use your phone and Thunderbird to retrieve that info. Thunderbird Add-on "Google Contacts" by H.Oga.Thunderbird Add-on "Lightning" (the Calendar part of Thunderbird).So if you drop your phone into the toilet 10min after you added a new number onto it - then your changes wouldn't have been lost. Also if you update your Thunderbird contacts, it will sync them back to GMail and your Android or iPhone. If your phone is connected to the internet, it will update your whole system with any new entry or change. If you want to have a great Email and Calendar program on your Laptop or Desktop and have it always synced with your Android phone or iPhone (without those pesky phone vendor programs) then Thunderbird synced with Gmail is the way to go.
To download Thunderbird, go here: Syncing Thunderbird Calendar, Contacts and Email with Gmail or Google Apps Mail You would use Thunderbird on your Laptop or Desktop. It is a great alternative to Outlook and is maintained by an open source community. Thunderbird is a great free Email Client that works well with GMail and Google Apps Mail.
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