Google Releases Push E-mail For The iPhone
Today, Google released the ability to receive push e-mail notifications to the iPhone. For those of you who may be unaware, push notification is the ability to be notified of an email instantly. Up to this point, the iPhone could only retrieve mail from the Google servers every 15 minutes.
Before I go on any further, I would like to point a few things out. First things first, this service is in beta, and the service was launched today. That being said, my personally experience with the service is unreliable at this point. My iPhone has had problems connecting to the mail server, as well as moving messages to the trash.
If you would still wish to set up Push notification for the iPhone, it is STRONGLY advised that you back up your data before you begin, as you are setting up a new service and could lose all of your contacts and calendar events.
Please also note that this only works with software version 3.0 and above
To set up Google Sync for the iPhone
1. Go to "Settings" on the iPhone Home Screen
2. In "Settings", select "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. Tap the "Add Account" option
4. Select "Microsoft Exchange" as your new mail account
5. In the email field, enter your full Gmail address (youremailaddress@gmail.com)
6. Leave the "Domain" field blank
7. Enter your full Gmail address as the username (youremailaddress@gmail.com)
8. Enter your Gmail password in the password field
9. Tap "next" at the top of the screen.
10. If the "Unable to Verify Certificate" box appears, tap "accept"
11. In the server field enter: m.google.com
12. Tap "next"
13. Select the services you wish to push to your phone.
That's it!
As I stated earlier, this is new and is a beta, so user experience may vary. If you wouldn't mind, come back to this post and share your experience with Google sync.
Kyle Ankney
Reader Comments (3)
Awesome! Does it do that with snow leopard yet?
Theoretically, the ActiveSync service should work with Nokia's Mail for Exchange, so I gave a shot at configuring the servic on my Nokia E71.
I already use Mail for Exchange to sync my calendar and contacts with Google, so I didn't need to enter any connection or account information; all I did was flip the option to synchronize email.
A few attempts at syncing turned out inconclusive, which is similar to what you have experienced. I'll give it a shot in a day or two in hopes that the Gmail service overall is back up to par (Gmail isn't doign too great at the moment.
Colby,
(I don't know if this is a snow leopard joke or not.... but...)
This has no effect on your computer, the push email is for the iPhone. If you want to set up gmail to go to the Mail client on your Mac, you have to enable IMAP, which is similar but something all together different.