For business users, you may prefer a BlackBerry than an iPhone. As the BlackBerry allows you to have your emails such as GMail, Yahoo pushed to your device. If you’ve chosen iPhone simply because of it brings more fun, but you should also wish that it could do similarly what the BlackBerry does, pushing emails to you or at least from the GMail.
Thanks to the new 99-cent application for the iPhone. Called the GPush, a GMail “pusher” application, which now allows the iPhone users to receive push notifications whenever there is a new message coming into your GMail inbox.
The GPush works very simple, you just need to enter your GMail account notification information. On the backend, the app actually communicates with GMail via the Gmail’s standard IMAP idle function, which may have little delay between the mail hitting your inbox and the notification getting pushed from them to your phone. The lag could be around 10 to 30 seconds, which should be widely acceptable for most users.
This app shall work differently from what’s on the BlackBerry. The GPush allows you to get a pop-up notification only when there is a new email. It’s somehow unclear whether it supports multiple GMail accounts, but it’ll be kind of annoying with lots of pop-ups if it does. Anyway, the GPush is still subject to the Apple’s approval for publishing it on the app store.
via gizmodo
August 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
There’s an almost identical application in the App Store: http://tinyurl.com/m6gtv5
August 7th, 2009 at 7:16 am
PushMail is much more efficient and works with all mail servers with no password leak.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Pity, Gpush has been (temporarily) removed from the app store already. Server issues.
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I just bought gpush today…love it so far and it looks great! finally a useful app I don’t feel like im wasting money on
September 11th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I love this app. Missing app on my iphone.
Now it’s complete.
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