thats great except they lose your personal information to hackers...roar

this works withy any pop3 email, not just gmaiil

cool that it's available but i get waaay too many emails to want to be interrupted every time one arrives. for now i'll just stick with my treo that lets me get my email whenever i want.

@skiterr: I was thinking the same thing.

Windows Mobile does the same thing...

well technically it's not 'PUSH' but every 5 minutes... pretty much next best thing

since Gmail offers IMAP and POP, and Windows Mobile can handle it, what's the benefit? I can set my phone to check every 2 minutes if I want.

Not to mention, constant checking kills battery life.

@skiterr:
This is NOW AVAILABLE for gmail...it wasn't before. That being said now finally I can get constant reminders from my most frequently used e-mail addy...yay! Does this mean g-mail actually works correctly with the ultimate inbox now?

iPhone says Bwaaaa???

Unless I'm not understanding 'push email', Gmail has been pushing out email to Blackberry users for quite some time now.

Push email runs on the same princibles and a MS exchange server, where as it doesn't 'check' for email at a specific interval. In this case the phone recieves a notification that a new email has arrived and gets "pushed" to the device. Something Blackberry has been doing since their inception, but only if you use Blackberry as your email service.

Anyone else wonder why Gmail is still in beta?

@scrawledinwax: After you pay the extra BlackBerry tax, yes. This is free for Helio members.

Cool that my .mac email account now pushes to my Ocean, too. That's something that my iPhone can't do. Irony.

@justinsane: Good thing you have both.

I check my hosted gmail with my ocean but set it up as a stand alone IMAP account. I just tried it and the push works. Helio is great. Too bad they only lose money.

The annoying thing about using a client to read gmail is that because they organize your mail into conversations, any time you send out an email it apparently winds up back in your inbox if you're viewing it through anything but their website.

iPhone please.

While it's laggy and kills battery life like an uppity insurgent, my Motorola KRZR on the Sprint network already offers gmail, as well as POP3, push. Please don't hit me.

I prefer to push my email away from me.

@jw: Yes, I was going to post this same comment. Why the heck is Gmail still in beta if it's being officially implemented on mobile devices? That really doesn't seem right.

What's so good about push email? I guess there are some emails I send that I want the other person to get right away. But in the opposite direction, why would I want to be instantly notified every time Steve Ballmer wants my opinion on anything from service pack timetables, to whether he would have been more attractive as a woman.

I'd rather be the one fetching my email, not have my email fetching me.

Actually, push Gmail was available on the Treo (Palm OS) using Chattermail as soon as Google implemented IMAP.

I've been using Teleflip for a while. I get the first part of an email - and only ones from people in my contact list - pushed to me as a text message. If I need to see the whole thing, I use the gmail app on my Katana.

awsome
to bad Gmail sucks
love my helio though
helio+yahoo=ftw

regular email accounts work as push too, I think this just got enabled yesterday. This is great and all, but why has it taken them a year to implement this? Something tells me they're worried about the new iphone and HTC dream.

This is misleading, I've been using push imap with gmail and AT&T service on my SE k850i for at least 2-3 months. Any imap server that supports persistent connections should work fine, the k850i prompts you to enable push after the first time you send/recieve...

this is not true, cause i have a lg muziq from sprint, and i have been pushing my gmail to my phone since i activated it, and that was in oct 07, i can even push aol, yahoo, hotmail to my phone, hmmm, i guess its not the first tho. sigh

@Verdigris:
No. This is not push. The provider of the email has to support the push on their end. Your email comes to gmail. Gmail will not notify the carrier unless it explicitly has an agreement to do so. I doubt a tiny company like Helio has such an agreement. They check mail from Gmail at certain interval and pushes it to your phone via standard push means. My BB has push email through gmail, but then again they have an agreement with blackberry.