Comments on: Push Gmail For iPhone (Almost) Here

By: mark

mark — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:05:06 +0000

I’m confused. I have push turned OFF and gmail STILL pushes it to my phone every time. It is really annoying because I DON”T WANT IT. Any help? Please?!!

By: Mal

Mal — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:19:36 +0000

MarryMcJ – You are a genius! Exactly the workaround I was looking for – and works perfectly – notifies my mail app when therei s gmail waiting and removes the mail notification badge from the mail app once I have checked my gmail – awesome awesome awesome!

By: Dave Bekhor

Dave Bekhor — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:33:20 +0000

My alternative is free and simple. Go to Gmail settings and select forwarding and POP/IMAP then enter a free Yahoo mail address and select keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox. Then go to your iPhone and enter the Yahoo mail account and select push. Voila, you have all your Gmail pushed to iPhone.

By: Chris Bray

Chris Bray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:18:48 +0000

There is another alternative, http://www.ultimatenotifier.com is about to launch an integrated push notification service for GMail, Google Apps Mail, Google Reader, Twitter and a number of other things.

By: LarryMcJ

LarryMcJ — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:48:27 +0000

Alan…I don’t notice a bit of difference in battery usage with GPush enabled. I personally think it’s the best push notifier out there and for the past week it’s been working perfectly.

Regarding the iPhone battery…I am convinced there is simply no way to get over one day’s use out of a charge unless you don’t use your phone at all and don’t turn it on. If it’s a device you have to charge every day, just do so and use whatever apps you want. I didn’t buy my iPhone to not use it :-)

By: Alan Kent

Alan Kent — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:39:44 +0000

Reading through this article and subsequent comments did not make it clear GPush is now available. I just searched for GPush in the store and its there with a mix of good and bad reviews.

Question: Does enabling ‘push’ on the iPhone chew the battery faster? I have heard conflicting reports.

By: Floyd Price

Floyd Price — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:58:04 +0000

Another option for GMail push on the IPhone is gPhushed (http://bit.ly/2XZhW)

By: ipguy

ipguy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:36:58 +0000

you can always try http://push.i-sync.info

By: Todd Baz

Todd Baz — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:39:07 +0000

There is a great Gmail notifier in the App store called
“pushmail.” it sends an instant pop-up when u receive a new
email from any account plus a brief display of the message. It is
instant but nit true push. This is ok with me because it does
not create any duplicate emails to delete. 5 bucks beats
the$99 cost of MobileMe. Works great

By: Macstibs

Macstibs — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:28:47 +0000

Wait… I can pay $0.99 to give someone my Gmail login credentials?!!??!? That’s awesome… They should increase the price though… to like $5.00

HUZZAH

By: LarryMcJ

LarryMcJ — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:10:42 +0000

You all are missing the easiest way to do this. Setup Gmail (web access) on your iPhone and add the home screen shortcut. Then setup Gmail IMAP in the iPhone Apple Mail (don’t worry…I know it doesn’t work for crap but we’re not going to use it). Now, every time you get an email, the IMAP Gmail account will instantly show you the message count notifier on the home screen mail icon (at the bottom) and you can launch the Gmail web interface to go to your inbox. When you take any action on anything in your Gmail web access (read, unread, delete, whatever) it will show up almost instantly in your IMAP Gmail account. Essentially, all we’re doing here is using the home screen Mail.app icon for Gmail

By: Dilip

Dilip — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:47:59 +0000

Can’t you use bluewhalemail or izymail to push emails to iPhone, instead of using MobileMe? Both are free.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:35:37 +0000

“and one would assume they are busy implementing it for Gmail.”

Bless.

By: Weekly App Store Picks: July 11, 2009

Weekly App Store Picks: July 11, 2009 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:28:02 +0000

[...] TheAppleBlog’s Darrell Etherington may be a subscriber to Apple’s MobileMe service, but I certainly am not. I just don’t see the value in paying so much for a service that can be pieced together for free: Gmail, Picasa, Dropbox, Google Calendar and Google Sync. Now yet another reason has been added to the anti-MobileMe list, in the form of GPush — an app that generates an iPhone push notification whenever your receive new mail. [...]

By: MGZ

MGZ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:05:27 +0000

Apple isn’t going to stop this, it’s no different than what is available already with their ActiveSync exchange support.

Google has also licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft. They’ve used it in Calendar and Address book, as you mentioned, and one would assume they are busy implementing it for Gmail.

By: Sixer

Sixer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:19:20 +0000

Total suck. This is not push email / push gmail. It’s a push notification for new mails in your online inbox. It has nothing to do with push email.