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hey this is Ellis with the verge checking out sunrise for iPhone future thinking new calendar app that's built on Google Calendar but pulls in data from other places like Facebook and Eventbrite when you first open sunrise you see all the events from all your different google calendars so what's different here well the first thing is that sunrise pulls data from other calendars you have where you've already responded to events like on Facebook so if you look here I have two events side by side to demonstrate I have Mindy's 24th birthday shindig and I have Minnie's birthday party so here's what I was already using for my calendar it's Mindy's birthday party at lolita bar there's really nothing there to look at if you tap on this comes straight from Facebook you can see I'm going I already RSVP'd here's the exact hours here the event details I could write on the event wall see who's attending and even see a map of where I'm going it's really just a whole new way to look at events on your calendar that comes from elsewhere and what's really nice is that if she changes the time it's gonna change right here in my phone another nice thing about sunrise is the way it handles meetings with people that you've both attended to and it'll actually populate a little image of them which is just a nice personal touch when you're looking at events and here's an event I have with Pierre that he invited me to and you can actually send him a message straight from inside the event which is something you just can't really do in a calendar app unless you have attendees attached and you know look at the location of the event and if anything changes it's going to be updated in your calendar immediately if you want to scroll through your events there's this kind of intuitive nice way to scroll through all your events you can go a couple months back and a year and a half into the future there's no search just yet but I've been told it's on the way one of the cool things about sunrise is that if you're not sure exactly where something is if it's already in that Facebook event or you entered it in you just swipe on the event tap little Direction symbol and you're straight into Google Maps getting directions how to get there and like I said before if she changes the location of the event it's gonna change location in your directions one other unique feature of sunrises birthdays which it pulls from Facebook and if you tap on birthdays it actually pulls in people's timeline photos straight from Facebook and right here you can either post on their timeline or send them a text message which is really convenient so you don't forget your friends birthdays and of course since sunrise is a calendar client after all you can create events so if you tap the plus sign up here you can enter in a title use a really nice dialog they've come up with for choosing your start and end times for events you can make them recurring you can also invite people straight from here choose your calendar set some alerts it's basically everything you can do on the iOS calendar one cool feature though is that you can actually enter in a location and sunrise will pull from places on Google Maps near you so if you do city bakery it'll pop right in there and it'll actually change the time zone based on where that place is if you want to make an event someplace else just like in fantastical or in Google Calendar on the web you can quick add by holding down on the plus sign and this actually uses the same algorithms as Google on the web to let's say you do dinner in Paris on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. hit add that's gonna pop straight into your calendar with no more effort and lastly since sunrise is plugged into both Google and Facebook it actually combines all your event invites in one spot at the top of the app and you can respond to things check out event details right on the walls straight from here so if I'm not going to this and I hit decline it saves my RSVP and now it's going to be taking effect on Facebook and it's gonna be gone from my list if you had the Sun Rise the Settings menu right here you can change settings for your accounts like let's say which accounts you want show up which you don't and you can also add new accounts there's also preferences for whether you want your weather and Fahrenheit or Celsius Google Maps or Apple maps and what your default calendar is sunrise is way of handling events is very clearly the future calendar apps plugging in everything you've RSVP'd to on various services and giving you the context you need and since it's built on the ability to feed in api's from other services you could really quickly add support for something like TripIt and have live updating events for flights just like in google now you'll be able to very easily follow a TV show or football team have the schedule plug straight into your phone without having to do anything sunrise is a really refreshing take on calendar as a consumption experience cloud calendar 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