Push Gmail Now Available For iPhone, WinMo Via Google Sync
You wanted your Gmail messages on your smartphone, Google mobile team heard you ! They have launched a push gmail feature especially for iPhone and WinMo phone.
The Google Mobile team has announced a new enhancement that fills in a major gap in its Google Sync feature that enabled over-the-air, push syncing of contacts and calendars to mobile devices earlier this year. It now supports push e-mail for both iPhone OS and Windows Mobile-based devices.
When we first looked at Google Sync, we noted the odd lack of push e-mail capability. Google Sync uses Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol to enable syncing of contact information, multiple calendars, and now e-mail from your Gmail account—effectively addressing the one major criticism of the service and the most requested feature from users.
Since this works via the iPhone’s native support for ActiveSync, setting yours up to use Google Sync will obliterate any previous Exchange account, so keep this limitation in mind (it has already burned at least one iPhone user in Orbiting HQ). However, for those who don’t need to sync other Exchange-based account (e.g. for work) and don’t need all the additional features of MobileMe (e.g. iDisk or Gallery), a Gmail account with Google Sync is a nice OTA syncing alternative.
Windows Mobile users also gain push e-mail as well. However, push Gmail doesn’t work with Blackberry, Nokia S60, or other mobile devices also supported by Google Sync.
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