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Seems that the iPhone 3.0 Calendar Subscriptions feature is not capable of matching the color schemes as shown in iCal. Published .ics files probably do not contain the data necessary to allow iPhone 3.0 Calendar to automatically assign the correct color, and iPhone 3.0 Calendar does not seem to have a feature to allow the user to choose a color for a particular subscribed calendar. It does appear that subscribed calendars are assigned colors in the following order: red, orange, blue, green, and purple. So to get your iPhone 3.0 Calendar colors to match your desktop iCal colors, you just need to add your subscriptions in the appropriate order. If you need to skip a few colors, just subscribe to some other calendars temporarily and remove them after assigning all the correct colors. If the colors still do not appear as desired, simply remove the subscribed accounts and try again. You can add calendar subscriptions by going into the Settings App and choosing Mail, Contact, Calendars. Then tap Add Account, Other, and Add Subscribed Calendar. Enter the URL to the .ics file and tap Next to verify, and then Save. An easier way to add a subscription URL is to mail the URL to your iPhone, and then simply tap the link on your iPhone. An alert will appear allowing you to subscribe to the calendar. iPhone 3.0 then verifies and adds the calendar subscription in the background and eventually pops up another alert telling you that the calendar has been added. On my original iPhone 2G, this process appears to bog down the entire iPhone for quite some time while it downloads the calendar entries -- hopefully this works better with the new iPhone 3GS. You might be able to optimize this by only syncing the last 2 weeks of events (adustable in Settings). Be patient and always wait for the confirmation alert before you add the next subscription. It's also a good idea to be connected via fast WiFi for the initial configuration.
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