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by Nick Breckon, Jul 27, 2009 6:00pm PDT

If you still haven't read Ellie Gibson's interview with Mark Rein over at Eurogamer, you're missing out. It's five pages of solid gold.

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Yapoo push e-mail on the iPhone - Pathetic. Doesn't work.

Come on Push Gmail. Where the hell are you??

Jul 28, 2009 3:51am PDT

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  http://lifehacker.com/5309573/set-up-push-gmail-on-your-iphone : moshman
  - If i'm reading that correctly though that's just a push notification not a push of the e-mail itself? : vorm
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    I thought it works in push mode when setup via the google instructions? : abrasion
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      I don't even have an iphone. I just found that on google :) : moshman
      
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      This guide, I (think?) makes the iphone work with push support? I dunno! http://www.google.com/support/m... : abrasion
      
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      That's push contacts and calendar, not email. : hawkeye
      
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      I don't understand, my phone makes a dungggg! noise every now and then and I get a new email? : abrasion
      
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      Gmail currently works based off the fetch settings. Defaults to 30m I think, can be set to 15m, 30m, 1h,... : hawkeye
      
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      I think you're totally right, honestly 15 minute doesn't bother me :/ : abrasion
      
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      I'm only interested in Push email because once it becomes prevalent we can finally be rid of fucking SMS. : hawkeye
      
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      There's a financial incentive to stop that hawkeye. In this country SMS is 22c a shot ............. (ok ... : abrasion
      
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      Costs 11.7p in the UK - UK£ 0.117 = 0.1933074 US$ So not much cheaper : losimagic
      
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      ^ on an iphone contract : losimagic
      
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      Shrug, someone told me 4 years ago she paid 1 or 2p per SMS back then on a normal GSM plan (so clearly ma... : abrasion
      
      So I guess I'm lucky that my plan includes unlimited SMS within Canada. It makes it awfully convenient t... : Trepex
      
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      Nah, it pushes contacts and calendar but not email yet. I just use the mobileMe work around for push ema... : Trepex
      
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      There is no god damn reason the iPhone can't support IMAP IDLE :( : hawkeye
      
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      I agree. Mail supports it in OSX, right? I'm sure it's not a huge amount of work to do it on the iPhone... : Trepex
      
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      Mail on OSX does support IDLE (99% sure). Mail on iPhone is a background app, it's essentially always ru... : hawkeye
      
      ah right of course! : Trepex
      
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      Yeah, it checks intermittently instead of instantly receiving a notification. It's probably better that w... : razlebol
      
      But if you're going to have push enabled at all, you might as well have it enabled for email right? And ... : Trepex
    - Yeah, it works with the normal mail app included for me. : razlebol
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  i have mine set up as IMAP with Gmail and it's pretty damned close to Push.. get emails on the phone with... : g0nk
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    How much of a hit does your battery take though, having it check that often? : Trepex
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    Bullshit. If you're going into the mail app to check it's doing an immediate fetch. I've also found it'... : hawkeye
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      uh, no, it pops up without me going to the mail app.
      
      Jul 28, 2009 6:29am PDT
      
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      uh, no, it pops up without me going to the mail app. : g0nk
      
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      Then you've hacked the gibson and won the game. : hawkeye
      
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      i dunno, i set it up with my 3 Gmail accounts from day one, and it's always been that quick at fetching n... : g0nk
      
      I suppose that's possible if you have polling enabled, that's all. If the polling coincides with when th... : Trepex