Workaround for GMail Push & Exchange?

Yeah - just forward your gmail to your mobileme email. Works great.

 

Gmail push is overrated and doesn't work half the time and emails take forever to sync. Just set up a regular Gmail account (which uses IMAP as far as I can tell) and set a 15-minute fetch and you're set and free to use Exchange sync for your actual MS Exchange account.

 

I use an App called Boxcar to send push notifications for all my emails (works great) and that way I can still have my calendar and contacts synced between my Mac, my iPhone and Google using exchange... All seems to be working fine.

 

But if you have mobileme you can just sync your contacts with mobileme. Is there a reason you don't want to sync your contacts with mobileme?

 

I use the app Push Gmail which was worth the $1.99 or whatever that I paid for it. There are occasional outages, but overall it works great, with very little battery hit. Emails generally arrive on the phone faster than in my open browser window.