I've been lucky to get myself an IPhone 4. While there are some awesome things about the phone it is quite strange to be working for the first time with an Apple product.
I think this example is a good case in point.
I was trying to setup my Gmail on this Steve Jobs, keep it simple device. Went into settings, chose Gmail as my mail provider, entered my user name and password and whaalaa. All done, it downloaded my mail. However I never heard from my phone again (i.e. it never told me there was mail in my mailbox).
So I started Googling. I found an app called IGMail. Downloaded it, installed it, ran the setup and found I was in exactly the same position.
Did more Googling! Found that I need to Pay for the push application!
Did more Googling!!
Finally I found through Gmail Help that you actually need to set it up as a Microsoft Exchange Mail! Can you believe it! Must be that Google and Apple are not getting along well as they enter similar markets together.
For those of you suffering with the same problem do the following.
Delete your old GMail account on your IPhone.
Create a new Account, Choose MS Exchange
Email Address: Your full GMail email Address
Domain: Leave Blank, Do Not put any info in here
UserName: Your full Gmail email Address
Password: Your GMail Password
Then click done at the top. It will say verifying for a few seconds. Then it will return to the previous screen with an extra field, "Server"
Type m.google.com
and click Done again.
Congratulations! Problem solved! Immediate notifaction of email, Wooohooo! You have joined the world where you have to use Microsoft to get your Apple to work.
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