Got an interesting e-mail yesterday about another push service for Gmail. This one only costs $0.99 and is not subscription-based. Pay once and enjoy the benefits (and possible battery hit) of push notifications for your Gmail account. That got me interested, but it was this feature that really sealed the deal for me: when a notification comes in, you can launch the PushGmail app and use the iPhone Gmail web client or just load up the Mail app. The icon even shows badges when new mail comes in, so I’ve actually temporarily replaced the Mail app on my dock for now while I review the app. I’m still playing around with it, but the developer has already started a launch contest that could be worth a look (remember, this isn’t our contest – for once 
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To celebrate the launch of PushGmail, we are running a daily iTunes gift card giveaway on Twitter. To enter the draw, follow @garywkfung and simply click this link bit.ly/5QltF to retweet our message or tweet the following:Check out PushGmail app http://bit.ly/MHHg4 and retweet this message for a chance to win a $15 iTunes gift card DAILY! (via garywkfung)Each tweet counts as one ticket for the draw. Winners will be announced through Twitter @garywkfung and www.pushgmailapp.com at 12:00am EST every single day!
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Thanks for the heads up on the gmail push app. I know alot of people who have been waiting for this. I have been using Prowl to send me a push notification for gmail & mobileme. I also have been using Prowl for Facebook & Google Voice push notifications. If I used Twitter I could also set that up. So my point is Prowl is a nice app to handle all push notifications.
I noticed that if I choose to use the native iPhone mail app – everytime I open the notification, it goes to a new composition for mail instead of the inbox. Have you experienced that?
How does this stack up against GPush? Seems the main difference is that this programs opens up your mail app?
Seems like the new composition mail is a limitation by Apple as referenced here http://www.pushgmailapp.com
Personally, gpush hasn't been working well for me and so far, this app beats it by FAR.
Seems like this app is not needed now that Google has GMail Push support right on the iPhone.
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p...
-Adam
One advantage of Pushgmail over Gpush is it displays the first few words of the email message which I found very useful. Gpush displays only the sender and the subject. By the way, Google offers Gmail push over Google Sync starting today. I enabled it, and I'm a little disappointed so far. The push is slow (slower than both GPush and Pushgmail) and it doesn't show a popup notification. I will stick to PushGmail for now.
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