Should I enable push for emails?

I could be wrong on this but pretty sure this is how it works....

PUSH will PUSH email to your phone instantly...but Gmail doesn't have push for the iPhone so you have to use Exchange....

Fetch means your iPhone will CHECK for mail every 15-30-hour ( whichever you set it for ) or manual is whenever you open the email app it will then check for mail.

When you enable push with your Gmail account on the iPhone, the only thing it pushes is contacts, calendar, notes ( not email )

So if you want true PUSH with Gmail, set up your account thru Exchange but keep in mind youll only be able to have 1 Gmail account to push ( not multiple )

someone please correct me if i am wrong.

 

I use Push and it's great.

 

I always used to use Push for my MobileMe e-mail but with the iPhone 4 I decided to try it a day with Push and a day with manually check every 15 minutes and I have noticed a difference in battery life, enough so to use the 15 minute updates and if I'm really waiting for an e-mail instantly I'll just keep the Mail app open.

 

You can push with gmail

You can enable push with gmail. I use it all the time. You set-up a Microsoft Exchange account.

Here's the step-by-step from Google:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

With this set-up, you get wireless sync of your e-mail, contacts, and calendar. I've got it set-up on my iPhone 4 and iPad and it works great!

And the best part is that it's free.

 

I tried my using google with exchange and it keeps asking for a exchange password?

 

hotmail had exchange support (beta) a couple weeks back. they took the support for it down though. they're scheduled release for exchange (push support) via iphone should be active by mid july.