Hi Alex, the native mail app doesn't give you true push notifications unless you set up an exchange account. But if you do do that, then you lose some functionality. This is why people like to have another app for true push notifications analogous to what you might get on a Blackberry device.
Grant On 7/10/12, Alex Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > Monica, completely agree with you, seems pointless to me. > Cheers > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Monica Jones > Sent: 10 July 2012 20:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Gmail app now has push notifications > > I have a Gmail account and use it in the regular E-mail app. I get > notifications when the mail comes in. Why would I want the Gmail app over > this? With the screen readers, this might come out as sarcastic which is > not > > my intention. I really want to know, smiles. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Hardy > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 2:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Gmail app now has push notifications > > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > Monni, the Pepsi Mama > Email: [email protected] > Twitter: @monni52 > Facebook: Monica Arnold Jones > Skype: monnirose52 > MSN: [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
