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With the launch of CardDAV, it's now possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols (IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV) for Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts.
ENGADGET: Google to continue offering Exchange ActiveSync support on Windows Phones through July 31st
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Of course, RIM could just add IMAP support directly to its phones so that this whiz-bang tech would work with any third-party email service and wouldn't have to go through BIS in the process, but that would be crazy talk, right?
ENGADGET: RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice
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For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync with an IMAP email account, for example, and amazingly, you can't natively connect to an Exchange ActiveSync service without being routed through RIM's back-end software.
ENGADGET: RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice