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Originally Posted by Wegmans
I set my phone up with Gmail, and it does push to my phone, not instantly, but every few minutes, and i get the numbers in the upper right corner too... am i missing something? I only manually refresh when i'm trying to keep up with a current conversation.
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gmail does not PUSH to the iPhone. You may have it fetching every 15 minutes, but this is not push. Push allows you to keep a active connection open to the mail server. This connection is open, but not using any bandwidth except for some heartbeats every once in a while. When a new email comes into the server it instantly pushes a notification out over this connection to your phone to grab the new message.
If you only get a normal amount of messages a day then this push method will save you a lot of battery vs fetching every 15 to 30 mins. Of course manual is the best battery saver, but who wants to do that
