Thanks for the links...
So with "MobileMe" it looks like it only pushes email from an @me.com email address; right?
And with "Apple Push Notifications" I can push emails from Gmail through the iPhone; right?
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
Thank you,
olimits7
No. You are really confused. Here's the deal.
1) Apple's Push Notification Service
A free service iPhone users get. Any app that wants to can push info from its servers to a phone whenver it wants.
EXAMPLE: Someone sends you an AOL IM and the AOL servers send it to Apple which then puts a message on your phone to check your AOL AIM app, even though the app wasn't running.
2) Push E-Mail
Some e-mail features push e-mail, which means you'll get it when it's sent, not when the iPhond decides to check for new mail.
Yahoo mail features this. G-Mail now has it IF you set it up using theie 'Exchange' instructions. Most corprate e-mail has push by using Exchange too. MobileMe also has push e-mail, which brings us to:
3) MobileMe
A $99-per-year service from Apple that gives you a bunch of stuff including:
* A
xxxx@me.com e-mail address
* Hard drive space on a virtual 'iDisk' that can be accessed from iPhones and computers.
* Live over-the-air syncing of contacts and calendars between computers and iPhones. (No USB hookup needed for syncing contacts.)
* Online photo galleries with direct uploading and downloading from iPhoto plus group photo sharing features.
* Online iWork document sharing from Pages.
* Back-to-my-Mac which lets you easily screen share over the internet
* Find-my-iPhone online locator & remote phone locking
...and a bunch of other stuff. That's just the basics. You buy MobileMe if you want all that other stuff, not just for the e-mail. That'd be expensive e-mail.
