Helio offers push Gmail

Posted by The Boy Genius on Apr 24, 2008 5:03 am 8 comments

Filed in Handsets, Helio, Services

So you got yourself a Helio Ocean, Helio Fin, or Helio Mysto, and you use the email all day long. All your various email services are push-enabled except for Gmail. Ain’t that a bitch? Well, Helio users woke up this morning to find that Gmail is finally push-enabled on all aforementioned devices. No crazy configuration required — just hit send and receive — your emails will just come in right before your eyes. While this is first "out-of-the-box" method we’ve seen, it isn’t the first with BlackBerry devices having this ability for a while. Still, it’s nice to know the world is changing. After all, could you live without push email?

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8 comment(s) for this post.

On Apr 24, 2008 @ 7:56 am, Huh? Said:

If you have to hit send and receive, how is that “push”?

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 8:03 am, Chris Said:

This sounds more like “pull” because the user has to hit send and receive to initiate the mail delivery.

For true push, you shouldn’t have to do anything on the device.

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 9:12 am, Junior Said:

how is hitting send/receive push email?

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 9:33 am, galvatron Said:

i’ts not you manually hav tro recocile your account noticehow RIM isn’t suing google or helio yet

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 11:07 am, Adonis Said:

Well if hitting send/receive is Push email, I guess I have Push gmail for my WM6.1 phone too.

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 11:47 am, The Boy Genius Said:

Sorry…you hit send/receive once to enable push email, you don’t hit send/receive after that first time.

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On Apr 24, 2008 @ 6:49 pm, Jeff B. Said:

Like the picture…funny…

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On Jun 29, 2008 @ 1:48 pm, Daniel Marquard Said:

I can’t believe this is still not offered on the iPhone. :/

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