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Google Adds Push Gmail for iPhone and iPod Touch Via Google Sync
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As long as it has some vulgarities about it, it passes Apple's scrutiny.
First came fart generators. Then came sexy teens. This week brought the first full adult iPhone app.
Meanwhile, Google Voice has been rejected (it is now being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission). But wait! When Google can produce something that involves some pushing, the App Store is open.
I hope that those, fearing for the 'Apple user experience' will enjoy the farting and the porn. Hopefully, the rest of us will see the Google Voice app soon.
First came fart generators. Then came sexy teens. This week brought the first full adult iPhone app.
Meanwhile, Google Voice has been rejected (it is now being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission). But wait! When Google can produce something that involves some pushing, the App Store is open.
I hope that those, fearing for the 'Apple user experience' will enjoy the farting and the porn. Hopefully, the rest of us will see the Google Voice app soon.
Same thing happening to me. And I've previously used the Calendar and Contacts sync fine.
Seems to work, but.. man, is it ever slow!
I doubt we'll see MobileMe go free or even become less expensive, there are still a number of features you can't get with Google's tools, including the suite of lost iPhone features, iDisk, and all the tie-ins to the iLife suite. I agree it will lose traction with the tech-saavy, but your average person walking into the Apple store to buy an iPhone or Mac will probably still see it as a great value, given how seamlessly Apple integrates MM.
I doubt we'll see MobileMe go free or even become less expensive, there are still a number of features you can't get with Google's tools, including the suite of lost iPhone features, iDisk, and all the tie-ins to the iLife suite. I agree it will lose traction with the tech-saavy, but your average person walking into the Apple store to buy an iPhone or Mac will probably still see it as a great value, given how seamlessly Apple integrates MM.
Doesn't work for me.. the folders appear OK but there's no mail in them.
Slow as heck too. I haven't run it long enough to see what the battery drain is like, but it has to keep the radio active (so the exchange server can send it push data it needs an IP which means it must be logged in). Not sure I need instant email *that* much that I'm willing to sacrifice the more of the already terrible battery life.
Slow as heck too. I haven't run it long enough to see what the battery drain is like, but it has to keep the radio active (so the exchange server can send it push data it needs an IP which means it must be logged in). Not sure I need instant email *that* much that I'm willing to sacrifice the more of the already terrible battery life.
Its not MS or the server its the mail clients be it iPhone, Outlook or Windows mobile Outlook that don't support it. The server wouldn't know if the client is syncing to multiple accounts. It would be a single connection to each even though exchange server supports multiple anyway.
Mac Mail client for Snow Leopard supports multiple activesync(exchange) accounts. I currently have 3 exchange activesync accounts setup on my macbook pro. Works like a champ and I love it. One account is set to iCal only the other 2 do Contacts/Mail/Calendar/Todo
Basically a dream come true.
I wish all mail clients supported multiple activesync accounts. I think that other clients will move to that soon.
Tom
the push is ridiculously slow with emails showing up in my personal gmail account several minutes after being sent from my work account. the pull actually gets emails faster.
with that said, i've turned off push gmail because as others have said, it seems to be constantly polling for emails and will certainly affect battery life. The question i have is after turning off my gmail google sync email account, it disappeared from my list of email accounts and i'm wondering if it cleared out the data from the iphone's memory for the emails that were downloaded or are they still there taking up memory even if you can't see the account on the screen?
with that said, i've turned off push gmail because as others have said, it seems to be constantly polling for emails and will certainly affect battery life. The question i have is after turning off my gmail google sync email account, it disappeared from my list of email accounts and i'm wondering if it cleared out the data from the iphone's memory for the emails that were downloaded or are they still there taking up memory even if you can't see the account on the screen?
I get the same error as those above, and when I go into mail it says "The connection to the server failed"
Do I recall reading somewhere about another issue with exchange sync and 3.1 or is it just my imagination?
Do I recall reading somewhere about another issue with exchange sync and 3.1 or is it just my imagination?
I just did the same thing. Reading and deleting mail via the exchange setup was screwing up my gpush badges as well so I just deleted the profile. May try again later.
So, who spent money for GPush or other similar apps? This kinda kills the need for that product, no?
finally they showed up - it took about 20 mins - i guess att and or google must be getting bombarded with updates and things must be going slowly.
Google Voice Web Application Coming Soon?
Google's forthcoming web based Google Voice application's dialer and SMS client will be all the better now that we've synced our Contacts with Google's servers. Hopefully it will be coming soon.
Too bad I recently renewed my MobileMe subscription to get push email. Not gonna happen next year. Thankfully I never gave anyone my MobileMe email address and only used it as a conduit to push auto-forwarded Gmail messages to my iPhone.
ITG
Google's forthcoming web based Google Voice application's dialer and SMS client will be all the better now that we've synced our Contacts with Google's servers. Hopefully it will be coming soon.
Too bad I recently renewed my MobileMe subscription to get push email. Not gonna happen next year. Thankfully I never gave anyone my MobileMe email address and only used it as a conduit to push auto-forwarded Gmail messages to my iPhone.
ITG
im getting this message after i enter m.google.com and click next...at the top it will say verification failed..
Exactly the same issue here...
Im in the UK and using an @gmail.com address.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I don't think so- at least not the way it is now. There is no sms style alert functionality (see my earlier posts). I actually just deleted the profile and set things back to manual fetch.
I can wait the 5 seconds for the email to load after being prompted that I have a new email (via a pop-up with sender and subject info). No need to waste more battery power.
yeah this is really slow; gpush alerts come through in seconds. and i don't like the fact i don't get a popup like i do with gpush. not what i expected at all, or am i missing something?
Exactly what Paul Thurott said. However, I disagree for a few reasons.
1) The other iPhone "exchange" features: Remote Wipe, locate and lock. I doubt this could ever be duplicated by Google for the iPhone. Android, sure, why not, but not the iPhone.
2) One of MobileMe's strengths is that everything is under one roof. I understand that Google has Gmail, Cal, and Picasa, which all mirror Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Photos. IDisk is pretty poor, so I'm going to cede half a point, to Dropbox and not Google, although the sheer amount of storage is better than anything free can offer (20GB) so Apple keeps 1/2 of a point.
3) This one's purely personal, but I've given my mac.com email address out for 2 years now. I'm not about to give it up. I'll admit it, I'm locked in buying Mobile Me for the foreseeable future, but given 1 & 2, and the fact that it can be had for cheaper, I'm willing to pay for it.
Agreed. The "push e-mail" is taking 3-5 minutes to show up on my iPhone. It's still listed as "beta" on Google's website anyway, so it's not quite ready for primetime obviously. Definitely not anywhere near being a MobileMe killer yet.
True, but there are many of us who are locked into gmail just the same. I only used Mobileme for calander and contact syncing. With Snow Leopard and exchange integration I think I'll have to give google more of a try.