Google Mobile Sync iPhone launched, still no push email

by Justin Horn on Feb 9th, 2009 @ 2:59 pm

Google Mobile Sync for iPhone (and some other  phones as well, but who cares about those) is now live. From this important notice it looks like it just uses Exchange Activesync to keep your google calendar and contacts synced to your iPhone:

Important! Google Sync uses the Microsoft© Exchange ActiveSync© protocol. When setting up a new Exchange ActiveSync account on your iPhone, all existing Contacts and Calendar events will be removed from your phone. Please make sure to back up any important data before you set up Google Sync.

Seems weird to me that they didn’t include push email, but maybe they plan to keep that seperate and have a push email system setup like Yahoo! Mail. This is probably a better idea since there are a lot of people like me that have an exchange account setup already. You can only have one exchange account at a time so if push gmail were locked to this exchange system I would be left out of the gmail push party.

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