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Originally Posted by doron
yeah i get that with gmail...whenever i get an email, i see the alert on my phone...thanks for the info...
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Gmail isn't push (unless you have your Gmail account forwarding to another account that is push). Jpettigrew described it correctly - the difference is in
how your iPhone gets the email. With Gmail (no push), your iPhone must access the server on its own to check for email. When it finds email on the server, it downloads (fetches) it. With a push email account, the email server reaches out to your iPhone and notifies it that new email is available and "pushes" that email to it without your iPhone having to do anything.
Push email tends to be faster (and more desirable) because it's almost instantaneous delivery of your email, whereas the shortest interval you can set your iPhone to go find any new email is 15 minutes (and that setting will kill your battery sooner).