Google Finally Enables Push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile
Google just announced that its users can now get their Gmail messages pushed directly to their iPhones and Windows Mobile phones. Push Gmail is now a feature of Google Sync. Google started to support the iPhone, iPod touch, and Windows Mobile in Google Sync earlier this year, but at that time, it could only push calendar and address book changes directly to these phones. Finally, Gmail users will now be able to see messages in the iPhone's mail app without having to regularly ping Google's servers for updates.
Google provides a good set of instructions for how to get this to work with your iPhone and Windows Mobile device, though it really doesn't take much more than just a few minutes to get this to work. As Google has licensed Microsoft Exchange for this feature, you simply bypass the Google Mail setup wizard on the phone in favor of a Microsoft Exchange account and then follow these instructions. If you are already using the calendar and contacts sync, all you have to do is flip one switch in your Microsoft Exchange setup on the phone. Google Sync supports Google Apps accounts, just make sure you enable this feature in your Google Apps dashboard.
Google, of course, already offered this feature for Android users and Blackberry devices. For iPhone users - and especially for business users - this is a big deal, however, as it finally allows Google to offer a feature that Yahoo Mail users were able to enjoy from the day the iPhone launched. It's also worth noting that other services like Nuevasync have offered iPhone users a way to route around this problem for a while already.
It's important to note that the iPhone only offers support for a single Exchange account, so you can't use this new feature to push mail from both a personal and a business account at the same time, for example.
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That's great except as far as I know, exchange only let's you have one login synced. If I want to check more than one account easily, it's back to the iPhone mail app for me. Linking a lot of gmail accounts into one via pop or imap is not an option…
Jonathan - yep, I was still doing some edits on the story while you posted that comment and added exactly that as a main problem here. You pretty much have to choose which account really needs the push feature (for me, that's my RWW account - my personal account will just continue to ping Google's servers every 15 minutes).
Frederic: well I sure didn't mean to step on your toes or anything. Lol :) thanks for the update and keeping us informed in general. Thanks to the magic of Twitter I found this before you got to edit it. I guess the next move belongs to Apple now.
Why not link a lot of accounts via POP? I have an old Gmail account coming into my Google Apps account via POP. It works fine, and even allows me to send mail from that account, if I so choose.
If you have multiple GMail accounts, you really need to integrate them into one. Using multiple Google Accounts is a major pain in the rear.
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September 22, 2009 10:43 AM
If you have multiple GMail accounts, you really need to integrate them into one. Using multiple Google Accounts is a major pain in the rear.
great news,so i can use my phone to connect to gmail?
I love music on the Iphone its the best...
Good news. It would be nice to be able to setup more than one Exchange Account since I already have my work account setup in Exchange
What about the Palm Pre?
so good news i just loved it .best part of it is that we can now get the Gmail messages pushed directly to their iPhones.
Didn't this already exist? I've had Gmail on my iPhone (set up by choosing "Microsoft Exchange") for a long time now. What is the difference between what I had and this new setup?
Can I set up the account with @gmail.com???Or just @googlemail.com?
hi this is really good news.it mean now own word iphone have the gmail client.
I just setup the push email and now have redundant gmail accounts on my iphone.The original one I set up on my iphone an imap account and the new push account with microsoft exchange. I receive messages on both at the same minute. What's the difference. Did I already have push mail?
Good news for me!
Thanks!