Google Adds Push GMail for iPhone
Well, I'm really glad this happened... Google has finally gotten push email for GMail accounts. Sure, it's using the Microsoft Exchange connector in the iPhone OS 3.x, but still, that's a lot better than the polling I had to do in the past. Also, the Yahoo! push email was very unreliable in my usage. Sometimes I'd get emails in a minute or two, and sometimes I wouldn't get them until I opened up the Mail app and it scanned for me. Far too unreliable to use everyday.
But with GMail Push, I can (and did) move my iPhone email to GMail and then redirected the forwarder on iphone@bobbeaty.com to the new GMail account. Then, by following these simple instructions, I was able to get my GMail on the iPhone. Very nice.
When I sent a test email from my laptop to my iPhone, it arrived in less than 3 seconds. Amazing. You can't beat Google for good engineering. Thankfully, I used the domain mail forwarding so that changing the underlying email account was easy and didn't effect the stream of emails. What a sweet deal.