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Google Adds Gmail and Calendar Push Notifications to iPhone App
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Well thats just stupid. I'm sure, just like 99% of gmail/google calendar users I get way more emails and would rather have pop up notifications for emails over calendars. What is going on at google?
I already get pop-up notification from my calendar. So I don't need the google app to do a pop-up. It would be far more useful to get pop-up notification for email. All I would need to see if the From and the Subject.
Oh well.. maybe they will expand upon this.
Oh well.. maybe they will expand upon this.
yeah, this is a pretty pointless addition. My calendar is synced with Google already. And without a pop up notification, who cares for email? I already use exchange.
Now, if they supported pop ups for Google Voice, it would be newsworthy.
Now, if they supported pop ups for Google Voice, it would be newsworthy.
If you want a great twitter app that has push try Simply Tweet its 2/3 bucks cant rember?? but it does Push/list's/trends landscape the other nice thing I love about it is it can cache your last read tweet so if you want it will load all the last read tweets from the last time you had the app open.
Has the push Gmail/exchange method been working for people under iOS4? i was going to set it up when I got my new iPhone but read a lot of reports saying it was broken under the new OS...
There were some glitches at first, but it's been working fine for quite a while now.
dont see the point of this..i dont need yet another place to check my email
if yahoo can offer push email for the iphone's own mail.app, why cant google and apple work something out as well..that doesnt require an exchange server. I dont use exchange with yahoo and it works fine.
if yahoo can offer push email for the iphone's own mail.app, why cant google and apple work something out as well..that doesnt require an exchange server. I dont use exchange with yahoo and it works fine.
I did not read whole thread. But anyone having problems getting push or fetch to work should upgrade to the latest (4.02) iPhone update. I could not get it to work and there is some Apple support knowledge base article that says the carrier file may not have been correctly updated with iOS4. Once I added 4.02 (begrudgingly) everything worked fine. Though I am using Gmail push through Exchange, not the Google app.
If your iPhone calendar was already synched with your online Google Calendar, wouldn't your iPhone calendar give you reminders? Making this useless?
This is a serious question by the way, I really want to know the details.
This is a serious question by the way, I really want to know the details.
I don't get it?
What's the point of push notifications for calendar events? My gmail account already synchronises with my iPhone and iPad, so I get the alert directly. Why do I want another alert for the same event?
Also, I get an audible alert for email already, so although I can see some use for push alerts here, it's hardly a major benefit.
Phil
What's the point of push notifications for calendar events? My gmail account already synchronises with my iPhone and iPad, so I get the alert directly. Why do I want another alert for the same event?
Also, I get an audible alert for email already, so although I can see some use for push alerts here, it's hardly a major benefit.
Phil
IMO, the best solution is to just jailbreak and install Lockinfo. You can see all emails, texts, vms, missed calls, notifications, etc in a list on the lockscreen. You have total control as to what shows and # of items in each section, etc.
No need to do a "20 second mess with the phone moment". Just glance at the lockscreen.
Unfortunately my preferred setup requires a jailbreak, so to each his own I guess.
I would agree if Lockinfo wasn't so unstable. I paid for it and had nothing but problems with it for the four months I used it. For me, it wasn't worth it. I hope iOS 5 brings a lockinfo type notification system though.
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I turned it off, I use my iPhone all the time for an alarm clock, not 100%, but it works after I turned this off. Sometimes I think Google is trying to sabotage the iPhone, Google does things to apps and never finish the product, Google Voice never went anywhere, I realize Apple has a roll her too. I think GrandCentral would have gotten better if Google had not purchased them don't get me wrong I like Google but lately I think they are getting
Evil, the opposite what their company is suppose to stand for.
longdogs said:
I turned it off, I use my iPhone all the time for an alarm clock, not 100%, but it works after I turned this off. Sometimes I think Google is trying to sabotage the iPhone, Google does things to apps and never finish the product, Google Voice never went anywhere, I realize Apple has a roll her too. I think GrandCentral would have gotten better if Google had not purchased them don't get me wrong I like Google but lately I think they are getting
Evil, the opposite what their company is suppose to stand for.
The notification does not cause the Iphone to vibrate or to make a sound. Recently the Google today announced an update to its Google Mobile App for the ipad and Iphone application.
I have my account(s) set up this way and I get notifications of calendar entries.
The only problem I have is setting notifications, because they seem to be off by default.
I'm a bit new to this and only just realised that you could set up gmail using Activesync/Exchange to give you push email.
I've previously had my gmail setup using IMAP and 15 minute polling - does the Activesync/Exchange way still give you the same functionality as IMAP?
I've previously had my gmail setup using IMAP and 15 minute polling - does the Activesync/Exchange way still give you the same functionality as IMAP?
Hot Damn! I had been putting off setting up gmail as an exchange account, but now that I took the 1 minute to do it, I finally have push for my gmail account! Tested it and it works perfectly, I get a sound and a badge on the stock mail app.
Prior, I tried using the app mentioned in the OP, but it immediately showed 713 unread emails on the notification badge, and I did not feel like going through to mark them all as read.
Prior, I tried using the app mentioned in the OP, but it immediately showed 713 unread emails on the notification badge, and I did not feel like going through to mark them all as read.