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Battery performance with PUSH Gmail
- Thread starter Angelo921
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Where do I enable Push for Gmail? I still only see two options, "Fetch" and "Manual."
I hope you're not talking about pushing Gmail through Exchange.
look, push isnt an acronym. it shouldnt be all caps. just saying.
i have mobileme and gmail, both push, battery lasts all day.
i have mobileme and gmail, both push, battery lasts all day.
Because I already use Exchange for my work. When I hear the word "Push Gmail," I tend to compare it with "Push Yahoo! Mail" and "Push MobileMe," which both achive push without the Exchange active sync. Imagine my disappointment when I learn time and time again that people are really talking about "Google Sync," not "Push Gmail" as comparable to those other native push implementations.
Must have missed the big announcement and onslaught of threads about it here
Unfortunately, I didn't. As I said above, theterm "Push Gmail" made me hope that you guys were talking about a native push feature for Gmail, just like Yahoo! and MobileMe, without going through Exchange.
Well I feel stupid. I always thought that push email would increase battery life because the phone isn't checking on an regular basis and the messages are pushed down like text messages.
I just switched mine yesterday and haven't noticed a drain today.
I just switched mine yesterday and haven't noticed a drain today.
I find push itself doesn't effect my battery life much. I find with push gmail I am turning my phone on a lot more often and responding to more emails on the fly which does lower my battery life to around 2 days. But I also don't make a ton of calls every day.
Your poll is flawed, option 1 and 3 are essentially the same.
I've actually noticed an increased batter life compared to the Fetch every 15 minutes.
I've actually noticed an increased batter life compared to the Fetch every 15 minutes.
My battery isn't any worse or better since using Gmail Exchange. I used MobileMe beforehand, so I guess that's why. PUSH can be a drain on your battery if you receive a lot of emails throughout the day.
Are most of the users complaining about battery life new to using push email? For me there is no difference between this and MobileMe. All push email will drain your battery versus fetching every 30 minutes to an hour.
Are most of the users complaining about battery life new to using push email? For me there is no difference between this and MobileMe. All push email will drain your battery versus fetching every 30 minutes to an hour.