Google Adds Push Gmail for iPhone and iPod Touch Via Google Sync
When we launched Google Sync for Contacts and Google Calendar earlier this year, an over-the-air, always-on connection to sync mail was noticeably absent. We heard your requests loud and clear, and starting today you can use Google Sync to get your Gmail messages pushed directly to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Windows Mobile device.
You can set up push Gmail by itself or choose to sync your Contacts and/or Calendar as well. If you're using an iPhone, make sure you're running iPhone OS version 3.0 or above (on your device, click Settings > General > About and scroll down until you see Version). If your software is out of date, follow Apple's upgrade instructions. Then, visit m.google.com/sync from your computer for set up instructions. If you're already using Google Sync, you can just enable push mail.
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Anyone have any help for me?
No more reliance on 3rd party apps for push gmail. Sweet.
Can you have 2 exchange accounts on an iPhone? I realize it tells you that you can't, but I was wondering if there's a work around.
Anyone have any help for me?
No workaround unless you forward the Exchange mail to a non-Exchange account. iPhone only allows one Exchange account. You can always use a service like Gpush or Mail Notifier (coming soon) for push notifications of Mail.
This is a big deal. It virtually kills the core idea of MobileMe at its price point although MobileMe still has advantages of Find My iPhone, bookmark sync OTA, iDisk, website hosting, etc.
Competition is always good :)
this could just be isolated and overload from everyone trying this out at once but wanted to report my findings
Edit: about 20 seconds after i typed it the test message came through! so... push works, just might be slow for a while as everyone sets it up for the first time
just enabled gmail push (calendar and contacts were already google sync enabled) and while my contacts and calendar still sync quickly gmail push has been painfully slow to acknowledge a new email (in my case greater than 6 minutes (timed) have elapsed so far from a test i did.
this could just be isolated and overload from everyone trying this out at once but wanted to report my findings
Edit: about 20 seconds after i typed it the test message came through! so... push works, just might be slow for a while as everyone sets it up for the first time
Yep everything is running very slow for me as well. It's probably just because a lot of people are using it.
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