My apologies for posting this in the Diamond section, but I figured there have to be some users here that have figured out a way to get push GMail to their Diamonds. I've searched around and not found anything that will reliably push my GMail account to my phone for free.
Here's what I've tried so far:
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mobipush and it's flaky at best. Push is typically pretty slow and sometimes doesn't work at all. Only does email, no contacts or calendar. I give it a D.
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Mail2web is a service that works, but I don't want to use their email address or forward my gmail to them. Email only.
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Nuevasync works great for pushing contacts and calendar from google to my phone but it doesn't push email unfortunately. Gets a solid A for doing contacts and calendar, but no email support. btw keep in mind that it will also sync "Suggested Contacts" from Gmail, so be sure to delete those first if you don't want them on your phone.
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Windows Live for Mobile works amazingly well for push email but it only supports hotmail accounts. A+ for pushing hotmail (including custom domains. if you own your own domain, point the MX record to hotmail and it will push it for you). Doesn't do gmail though
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Emoze - flat out doesn't work. Client is terrible, only syncs for the first time and never after that. Gets an F.
So in a nutshell, I still can't push gmail to my phone. Any ideas/recommendations much appreciated.
Ideally, what I want is a single service that will sync Email, Calendar and Contacts all from Google in real time. If that's not possible, then I'm happy to use nuevasync to sync contacts and calendar in conjunction with another service that will push gmail for free and works well overall.
Thanks!
EDIT: Based on suggestions from everyone, I will be trying other services and reporting my results here.
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SEVEN - The client install was buggy. It crashed my phone and then slowed everything to a crawl even after a soft reset. Email was "pushed" with an average delay of 15 minutes and many contacts were duplicated. It only does email and contacts btw, no calendar. Overall, SEVEN gets a D- grade at best. I may have to try it out again later to see if it does better.
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Goosync - the website says it does calendar only, non-starter for me.
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Oggsync - Free version does calendar only, paid version does contacts also. Still no email.
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PushEffect - still needs to be tested.
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Sprint Mobile Email - still needs to be tested. I think this is just the SEVEN service, but I will try it out soon.
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Funambol - Testing now, apparently syncs email, contacts and calendar via OTA push. I've set up an account here and set it to push (currently email only) but I can't for the life of me get it to push mail down unless I sync manually. Ok email started showing up with about a 15 minute delay here also. Not sure why there is a delay, but I kept tabs on the website for sync status and it wasn't syncing right away, bur rather taking some time. This time could sometimes be hours or not even sync at all unless i manually synced. Not a workable solution so far.
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ImapPusher - mentioned in post 6. Works brilliantly well. This is the only service I've used so far that pushes my gmail in real time. No schedule though.. and no calendar and contacts also (see nuevasync for these 2).