Gmail adds “push” mail for the iPhone
October 13th, 2009
Automatic syncing of Gmail Contacts and Calendars on the iPhone has been possible for some time now, and is a fantastic feature. I’ve always got my iPhone with me and it’s insanely nice to be able to add and remove new contacts or events via my phone on the go. However it always bugged me that you couldn’t get “push” notification of email over this same Active Sync/Exchange connection. I’ve been leaving my iPhone set to check for new messages every half hour until now, but apparently Google has recently added the ability to sync Email as well! I guess if I was more of an iPhone news junky I’d have found out three weeks ago, but I just noticed this morning when Google posted a link to their blog entry about it on the Gmail home page.
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