Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Push, Gmail, iphone, symbian, exchange | Themes: 3GSM, Smartphones
Google has announced that push Gmail support for Google Sync.
Announced last year, Google Sync lets you synchronize your Gmail contacts and your Google calendars with your iPhone, S60 devices and of course, Windows Mobile devices. Yesterday, Google announced another feature for Sync that a lot of people are likely to jump at: Push Gmail support.
Those of you panicking about having to Sync your contacts and calendars too, don't need to worry. You can pick and choose what you want to synchronize so if you just want you mail, that's totally okay.
Unfortunately a couple of us in the office have tried out the new feature and can't seem to get it to work. Between insisting our passwords are incorrect and telling us it can't connect to the server, I've just about given up. Let us know if you've managed to get it working and on what device.
Click here to try Google Sync for yourself.
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Does this use Exchange? Meaning can I still stay connected to my work Exchange servers, and setup the Gmail feature?
Link answered my question
"Important! Google Sync uses the Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol."
This feature will be worthless for me, as work push trumps personal push.
works great for me on my iphone 3GS
The actual feature will not be supported until AT&T enables MMS and these other features on September 25.
Although Apple hasn't released push for Gmail to the Mail App you can get around it with Google Sync and set it up as a Microsoft Exchange Account. Unfortunately if you have an Exchange account already on your iPhone, you will be unable to make a second one. (Source: Gizmodo)
This works great for me! I'm running Windows Mobile and already had my Gmail account syncing with Calendar and Contacts, I just went in and checked Email and it works perfectly. I'm really glad Gmail is doing this!
It initially didn't work on my iPhone. I got those "incorrect password" errors. I think it was because I was adding a second account on the iPhone to the same Gmail address. After removing both versions of the email account from my iPhone and then adding it once the Microsoft Exchange way, Push Gmail has been working great.
Sort of works on my blackberry curve 8900. I can login and get contacts to sync. Last time I tried it a month or so ago it was doing bad things. E.g., deleting a contact via the web would pull the, now missing contact, from the phone and vice versa which was very lame. Saw some unconfirmed funny business with the calendar and decided to uninstall it. The one thing it did that I liked was chew up more bandwidth. With ridiculously high unlimited data rates I try to get my moneys worth!
Works great on my iTouch first gen. Although the contact only show when I do a search for an individual. This is an Ideal solution for me and I look forward to using it with my new Palm Pre.
Worked great on my Iphone, had a few issues at first but managed to get it all working
Works for my Nokia 5800 XM. Get my e-mail within a few seconds from sending from my office PC.
Works a treat on my 1st gen iphone