Google offers push mail Gmail support for iPhone, Touch and WinMo smartphones

Google has released push mail support for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile-based smartphones via its Google Sync product.

That means email that contacts Google's mail servers will automatically be pushed to users' Gmail accounts, eliminating the need for users to refresh their web browser to see the newest messages.

"Apps customers who love native mobile applications can now get push mail, contacts and calendars across the major corporate devices: BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and, of course, Android. With the over-the-air, always-on push connections, emails and changes to calendar events and contacts are reflected very quickly on their phones," said Raju Gulabani, product management director with Google Enterprise.

Google introduced Google Sync in February to allow users to synchronize their Gmail contacts and Google calendar with their iPhone, Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S60 phones, but push Gmail wasn't supported even though Google already enabled Gmail push on Android and RIM BlackBerry devices via the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

For more:
- see this eWeek article

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