SYNCING My Note III phone to NotePad

I am a newbee -- just moved over to Android from Blackberry and like it ALOT so far

I have an Galaxy III phone and 10" notepad but can't get the contacts and calendar to sync between the two

My phone is the one which is up to date but I really prefer using the bigger notepad screen but can't get the notepad current?

Thanks for any help

i use google calender and contacts synced to gmail. it always synced to my Nexus 10

Go into Accounts, select your Gmail account, and verify that Sync Contacts and Sync Calendar are checked.

If they are, is your Calendar storing locally, or, are you using your Gmail account's calendar? I don't have either of those devices, but, there should be somewhere in there to check which calendar(s) are being displayed/used.