Apple approved Gmail app for iPhone. Has hell frozen over?

I had used Nuevasync in the past with MOSTLY good results (for calendar/contacts sync). They would occasionally have server issues, which is the only reason I switched to Gmail's sync solution when it was finally released.

As of yesterday, I decided to pay the $25/yr to try Nuevasync's "Premium" service and also get "push" email and it seems to work well enough. Because my iPhone only allows one Exchange account, I had to delete my Gmail contacts/calendar sync account and re-setup my old Nuevasync account to once again sync contacts/calendar on the iPhone (along with email). Most emails now show up on my phone within 20 seconds, and now I can have fetch turned to Manual. We'll see if that helps me save battery.

I must say I was very happy when Google released sync for contacts and calendars and switched to it (from Nuevasync) the instant I found out about it's release. Gmail's sync solution ALWAYS sync'd and never had server outages/overloads, so if Google expands that service for Email, what purpose would NuevaSync or Gpush serve?

Can the Gpush people really be spending all this time (and fundage) to make a gmail email push app, only to be obsolete in a week or two?

This app actually looked good, but it appears that they weren't ready for the release this past weekend.

After thinking it over, I came to the conclusion that I was stupid to WAIT for this app, then pay money for it, AND give away my gmail login credentials all to get something I could get with Mark's SMS suggestion.

Good one Mark! Simple, Secure & Free!!

If you're thinking about this app, I would respectfully suggest that you do what I did. Set up your gmail account to forward a copy to the sms email address for your phone, then set your iPhone's gmail fetch settings to manual.

You'll get that INSTANT email notifcation AND save on battery. The minute you open your native mail app, it will fetch whatever mail you have waiting on the gmail server.

Now, can we have a reality check??? Do any of you have "C" level position at a fortune 500 company, or a star on your shoulder at the Pentagon or do you work anywhere in the White House? I doubt that anything anyone sends you via email is THAT important. You coulda waited 10-15 minutes! I know this, because I just came to the same realization about myself, about 10 minutes ago! ;-)

If you're looking to do some sort of "push" work-around for iPhone gmail, do it for the RIGHT reason... So it will save your battery, instead of polling for email 4 times an hour (or 20 times an hour if you have that Push jailbreak app).