News September 22, 2009

Push Gmail arrives on iPhone via Google Sync (finally)

Gear Diary Push Gmail arrives on iPhone via Google Sync (finally) photo

Google has just rolled out push email for the iPhone via Google Sync. Earlier this year they’d launched Google Sync which allowed you to synchronize your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with your iPhone, Windows Mobile, and S60 devices. Today, they’ve added Gmail support to Google Sync for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices. To make use of Google Sync, navigate to http://m.google.com/sync for instructions pertaining to your device. If you’re using Google Apps then be sure your administrator enables Google Sync under the Mobile option. As of now there’s no ability to search Gmail email messages but messages that you read on the web are instantly synchronized to your iPhone and items deleted are moved to archive on the web.

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Wayne is a diehard Blackberry user and consultant specializing in Sage MAS90 Accounting Software. He lives in Glastonbury CT with his two children. When not helping them with their homework or pushing the latest school fundraiser off on his co-workers, he is active hiking, Scuba Diving and investigating all manner of technology.

http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

So far so good. I’m seeing synchronization of my Gmail account to iPhone in a very similar manner to how a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) might work.

If email is deleted off iPhone – it’s instantly also moved to archive on the web.

Similarly if I delete Gmail on the web – the deletion is instantly deleted off the iPhone.

There are some things that are not yet working — notably an inability to search through email. However this is a huge addition to iPhone’s ability to manage Gmail.
Jessica Fritsche

I’ve been using IMAP to do this all along with my iPhone…it’ll be interesting to see how much faster (if any) the push feature is than simply using IMAP.
http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

IMAP never worked properly for me. It sorta worked most of the time but I’d have LONG periods of hanging when it apparently got “stuck”.

Also I was never able to get IMAP to properly archive my Gmail — I’d always wind up disgarding the email to the trash instead of archiving it.
Jessica Fritsche

Mine has always worked really well…no problems for me. But, I am wondering if I might save a bit of battery life having things pushed to my email rather than having it poll the IMAP server every 15 minutes. Hmmmm.
Travis Ehrlich

It will not work for me because I already have my work email set up on the exchange account. I wish there was another way.
http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

Hehe – sucks to be you. I mean, um , wow Travis that’s awful…
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timothyt

works fine. but wayne can you find out for us how to hide certain folders when using exchange push? With gmail, you can select which folders you want to show up in IMAP and thus your iphone. Using exchange push all my folders show up.
http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

I noticed that all my folders show up as well. I tried using the IMAP feature which allows you to only sync specific IMAP folders and that had no effect.

So far as I can see you get all the folders…