This is part 8 of my series where I document going from an iPhone to Android 2.3, running on the Samsung Galaxy Gio.
Syncing, it turns out, is a royal pain in the ass with the combination Android and OS X. There's a whole bunch of sub-optimal and incomplete solutions out there. And that's assuming that your mail, calendar, contacts and notes/tasks are synced via your Google account.
| Product | Pros | Cons |
| doubleTwist | Free version available. Syncs music, video's and photos, wireless in the paid version | Does not transcode music and resize photos to appropriate size for device. Does not sync (only download) photos. |
| iTuneMyWalkman | Open source. Syncs music via iTunes, via a specially-named playlist. iTunes does transcoding if you care for that. Moves pictures to your harddisk, but doesn't sync them. | Doesn't sync anything else than music (photos are copied). Thinks thumbnails are also pictures. Doesn't transfer cover art. Transferring takes a long time, a couple of Gb of music causes a twenty-minute "collecting data from iTunes" message. |
| Picasa | Syncs photos wirelessly | Forces you to use Picasa web albums |
As far as I know, there is no one-stop solution on OS X, unless you use Samsung Kies on OS X, which only supports a limited number of Samsung phones.