Android device synching with iCloud Cal, Contacts & To-Do's?

NOTE: I am also looking on Android-specific websites/forums for answers, but there must be thousands of Mac users who are also Android users, and who have had similar questions.
I have an iMac, iPad(3), and iPhone G3. The iMac and iPad are synched via iCloud. The iPhone 3G, for reasons only Apple knows, can not. For cost reasons, I am soon moving from the iPhone G3 to a Motorola Atrix HD.
Can someone suggest methods to synch calendar, contacts and to-do data between iCloud and this Android device? Can I, for example, use a Google account, synch data betwen my Mac and Google's calendar and to-do's, then synch the Motorola to Google? Are there more straighforward methods?

I have not used icloud myself as i only have a macbook pro.
Calander sync: if you use google calander and import that into osx calander and android calander evertthing should be in sync. add an event to calander on osx it syncs to google calander then update the calander on android and they should be in sync.
Emails: with imap email account its easy. eg set up a gmail imap in osx mail it will sync with gmail. set up your gmail imap on your android device and everything will sync.
Contacts: using something like google contacts is a good idea. you can easily sync them to all os much the same as google calander and imap email.
To-Do Lists: using google tasks is a good idea for to-do lists, reminders etc.
Icloud alternitaves: there are my alternatives to icloud that are cross platform. dropbox, shugar sync, google sync to name some. these work the same as icloud. just install the app on each os and your up and running. you can sync much the same as icloud, music, emails, calanders, even files for sharing. etc. there is also a multi cloud service that can sync your different cloud servers together easily, its called cloud hq.
google is just one set of cloud apps, yahoo, windows live, and others provide similar services to google that i use.
my main computer is my macbook pro, I have an andrid phone, an old windows pc, and several linux os. using the above i can happily be in sync with everything.
also there are many cross platform applications you can use on all platforms that can make things easy. firefox, chrome, opera (browsers), thunderbird (email), dropbox (cloud sync) etc etc it all depends on what you want to do, what you need etc.
ok thats enough rambeling for now hope this helps you in some way.

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