I’ve been running Push Email on my iPhone for the last couple of months in a number of ways. The first is I have my current exchange email setup, which is working very well, but I also wanted to have my GMail coming through as push. This is a definite limitation to only having one set of Push Email setup on a device at anyone time, so I originally turned to another application called PushGMail.
GPush was working for a while then suddenly it stopped working for a few days. Then it came back for a week, then it stopped working again. GPush is using their own server technology to check when mail comes into your account from the app on your device, talking to their server, checking the mail in GMail then sending the notification back to the app. Unfortunately things seem to have gone south for GPush (at least for me anyway), and I haven’t had Push Email notification for the past 4 days.
A little frustrated (and that I paid for the app) but I know things can go wrong, nothing is ever bullet proof, I decided to take a look at what other apps were out there that will do the same job. My main criteria was to
- Have it notify me when new mail comes in on my GMail account
- Be able to disable sound notification but still have badge notification and alerts on-screen (I hate the sound notification as I get a lot of email)
- Also have a built-in GMail client (of some kind), even if it’s just launching a m.Gmail.com
I’m glad to say I found PushGmail, purchased and installed, and my Push Email is back up and running again! Thank you PushGmail:)
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It´s a really cool app, but I wish the built-in Gmail client was waaaaaay faster!
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By: Lara on October 16, 2009
at 7:50 am
For me the built-in GMail app is working as fast as m.gmail.com (mobile GMail website) so I think the slower speed is that it’s loading the mobile web page whenever you’re trying to do something rather than having an in-app client to download the messages offline. e.g. if you turn off 3G then you’ll find you probably can’t load the in-app GMail client.
By: Dave Burrows on October 16, 2009
at 9:46 pm