I think you mean push and poll. Anyway, push is when a service sends out
notifications and your phone receives them. Like if you get a
notification that you have a new text message, that's a push because
someone sent it to you. Your phone didn't actively go get the new
information. So, it uses less battery. A poll is when your phone
actively asks services if there is new information. If you have an email
program at home and you press control-m or f5 or some command to see if
there is new email, that is polling and when your phone does that, it
uses up more battery. Think of push and poll like passive and
aggressive. Passive will use less juice whereas aggressive uses up more.
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On 7/11/2012 12:50 AM, Jessica Brown wrote:
What is the difference between push and pull?
----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Hardy <grantha...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Date sent: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:56:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Gmail app now has push notifications
I don't mean to be too controversial and it's hardly a big deal, but
do you know how PUSH 4.0 provides push functionality? I only ask
because the Ultimate Notifier app advertizes push functionality for
Gmail, and what it actually does is pulls Gmail's ATOM feed every
thirty seconds or so. Of course, that's a pretty darn fast
notification window, and it's super reliable. But in terms of "push
notifications" in the true sense of the word, I wouldn't say this
really fits with the definition.
You can find out what an app is doing by reviewing Gmail's "last
account activity" at the bottom of every Gmail page, including the
plain HTML version.
Grant
On 7/10/12, Rick Alfaro <rick.alf...@gmail.com> wrote:
Totally agree, Push 4.0 works great and very reliable.
Do you know if the Gmail app works well with VO? Would you use it in place
of the native iPhone app?
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Gmail app now has push notifications
This is great to know. Also, in case others are looking for true push
notifications for gmail, you can get the Push 4.0 app for $4.99 and use it
for various pushes like gmail, twitter, and Facebook. I find it more
reliable than Boxcar.
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On 7/9/2012 3:11 PM, Grant Hardy wrote:
Hello all,
I haven't been following this list a lot lately so if this topic has
already been beaten to death, I apologize in advance - I did a super
quick search of past postings and didn't see it!
For all you Gmail users out there, the Gmail app, while not entirely
accessible in certain respects, now has push alerts for new Emails.
There have been a few alternatives that I've used in the past, such as
the Ultimate Notifier app - which checks mail every thirty seconds -
and setting up a Google Exchange account in Mail - which has a few
bugs. Now, you can have true push notifications for your Gmail
account.
Cheers,
Grant
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