with the new software bound to come out this spring/summer, when will we possibly get push for gmail...this would be an early christmas gift if it comes out this summer.
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Ekelon, I think yours pushes because you're using Exchange. But Gmail currently won't push by itself like Yahoo mail supposedly does.
Is this correct, anyone? I don't use either so I may be mistaken.
But Gmail currently won't push by itself like Yahoo mail supposedly does.
Hi, i'm a bit of a n00b and i don't use exchange on mine, but my mail still gets pushed straight to my phone with both Gmail and Hotmail accounts..
Just thought i'd put my experience forward!
OH SNAP. I see what you mean now lol. My gmail contacts & calender gets pushed by exchanged but my gmail e-mail doesn't. The gmail only fetches every 15 min. does anyone know how much worse battery life is between pushing and fetching? since i'm find right now with my gmail just fetching every 15 minutes since there's never anything urgent... the urgent things come through by text messages.
with the new software bound to come out this spring/summer, when will we possibly get push for gmail...this would be an early christmas gift if it comes out this summer.
Wait, but how does the phone know when to push? Doesn't it have to constantly ping the server?
Yes, they could. Well sort of. In fact anyone could develop and app and I'm considering doing so myself. Trouble is, I have to buy a mac to use the SDK and money is tight.With push service coming in 3.0, couldn't Google build a Gmail app to use push?? It would only make sense that would.
With RIM, the device doesn't ping the server. With yahoo push on the iPhone, it's yahoo. (Correct me if I'm wrong on the second one)
I'm not too familiar with MobileMe; but, would getting an account there allow you to configure gmail to be pushed to your iphone? I know it costs yearly (which makes it not ideal), but was just curious as to the possibilities. I use yahoo mail so I get push already.
Well people have figured out a way to get gmail to push through mobileme but it's kind of a pain.
You could set your gmail to forward to your mobile me, that's one option.
The next option, change your outgoing server to smtp.gmail.com instead of the mobile me one and when you send messages, they will appear to come from your gmail. But then your mailboxes don't update and it's a mess.
I just wish Gmail would release an iPhone push service.
I don't want to pay for mobile me, but I've thought about it just to have the storage.