Remember when you first got your iPhone, you were told that setting up fetch email could drain your battery faster? No? Well maybe I’m just a little too particular about all that stuff. I still had mine set to fetch every 15 minutes, and I had to charge my phone daily. Not to mention you could be getting important emails 15 minutes later than you’d like to see them.
Google has the answer. They have updated their sync help to include mail. Previously you could only sync Calendar and Contacts items with their sync service. Now you get push email.
It’s sort of ironic, however, that all of this is done through the Microsoft Exchange mail options in your iPhone. Hey, as long as it works, that’s cool with me. And I don’t have to pay any extra for it.
Will this change my battery longevity? I sort of doubt it, but I’m a little curious to see.
Jonathan is a self-proclaimed geek who likes pretty much anything tech-related. He is especially into Linux, but is interested in Apple and Microsoft tech as well. Jonathan is also into a little bit of gaming - he owns a PS3 and a Wii, but with his limited budget only owns a handful of games for both consoles.
For money, Jonathan works at a large engineering firm. He works in a datacenter as part of a group of 3 managing about 200 servers (and growing!), most Microsoft, some Linux and about half are virtualized using VMware.