Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread RJDarts
Hi Adam, Yes Gmail does indeed work with iPhone and this is how I utilise Mail when not able to connect via WiFi. Provider should also have a server able to achieve said results, but I prefer gmail added security with SSL servers. Actually I did not setup Gmail, it was done whilst syncing

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread RJDart
Hi Adam, Yes Gmail does indeed work with iPhone and this is how I utilise Mail when not able to connect via WiFi. Provider should also have a server able to achieve said results, but I prefer gmail added security with SSL servers. Actually I did not setup Gmail, it was done whilst syncing

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Well, although the 1GB of data might be plenty for checking email every 15 minutes, I have found that this does take a massive toll on the battery life. I have now set it to check every 30 minutes and I will see how the battery life goes now, if its any near as bad as checking every 15 minutes the

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Thanks Peter, This isn't true. I have managed to get my Yahoo mail to push...for some reason I needed to reset the iPhone and its working now as expected. As you say though, I can just set it to check every 15 minutes and that way I wont have to put Yahoo into the mix. Hopefully Google will get t

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Peter Fowler
Hi Adam You can only get push notifications for mail/calendar/contacts through mobileme. All the other accounts are fetch only at the moment. This may change with the updates that are coming soon, you will be able to nominate which apps run in the background. On your iPhone if you go to setti

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Could someone please tell me, does the 'push' email require you to have Mail open to receive it? I thought you would get a new email notification no matter what you are doing and then you would see the unread email count on the Mail icon increase? I have done a bunch of testing with a Yahoo accoun

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Thanks Eugene, The problem with that solution is that I need to open the app to check if I have new email. Even using the Mail app I can at least set it to check periodically... I would just rather let google push it to mr instead of have to check. Thanks, Adam Sent from my iPhone On 2

Re: iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Eugene
Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can v

iphone and gmail

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't su