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One Piece To Go

February 23, 2009 in Apple, Phone Posts by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

Google has added another smart feature to their lineup: tasks. That’s not actually news (it’s been available fir at least a couple of weeks), but I just added a tasks icon to the home screen on the iPhone. It’s now possible to keep my todo list synched with Google from the iPhone. That means Google has covered three of the four necessities with iPhone sync: contacts, calendars and tasks.

That leaves just one piece missing: push GMail. Rumor had it that this will be available soon, via the same ActiveSync tools already in use for contact and calendar sync. Push mail is another piece I’ve missed from the Blackberry. I did set up my GMail account to forward to Yahoo, which does have true push mail. It was tough to keep folders in sync, though, and to remember to change the return address in replies to the GMail account.

So, though I didn’t really realize that I missed it, push mail from Google will be a welcome addition to the iPhone.

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iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 Removes Push Notification Service

August 17, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

Interestingly, Apple has pulled the push notification service in this release “for further development.” The capability was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference Keynote in response to requests for background process support for third party iPhone applications. Applications that deal with messaging such as AIM or Facebook would likely stand to gain the most from the SDK enhancement. Apple has promised a September delivery of the functionality.

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