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 settings/fetch new data and select every
15 minutes it will look for emails more often, even if mail is not
open. They warn you that if you fetch more frequently you will use
more of your data plan but with your 1GB it will not be a problem. I
use 3G almost all the time for everything and never got close to the
1GB limit.
I also have the google app and have been unable to log on to gmail
with it. That should not be a problem if you already have gmail set up
though mail.
hope this helps
cheers
Peter F
On 23/05/2009, at 6:52 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote:
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 account and it doesn't
seem to do anything until I actually open Mail...Seems stupid if this
is the case as I dont want to sit there with Mail open all day to know
I have received any emails.
Cheers,
Adam.
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugene <edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au>
wrote:
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 verify
that some
of the other apps I played with work as expected.
Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader,
news,
notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube & earth. Some of these
duplicate
the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique.
Regards,
Eugene
On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote:
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 supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB
iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with
1GB
of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife.
Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail
account to
push the emails to my iPhone....and discovered that it appears that
Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was
advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches??
Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find
difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and
plan)
how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting
up a
ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run
the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting
delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I
find
it really weird that they haven't set this up yet.
While I am at it, does anyone have any tips & tricks that they can
share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a
data
plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use....(I
plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I
already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasks....any
other time management/project management tools would be useful as
well)
Kind regards,
Adam.
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