Couple of iPhone tips

[llotse]

Seems to be a few iPhone users on here so I thought I would share this.

Found this yesterday and it finally seems to make push email on the iPhone work properly. Drawback is you need a Gmail account. You can always set up your present account to forward to Gmail. It's free unlike the MobileMe system which Apple wants us to pay for.

http://google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

Another thing is once you have set it up you start to get annoying message alerts 24/7. To stop this put a 3mm jack in the top of your iPhone at night and you will only get notified of calls and alarms. SMS, emails and all other alerts will be silenced. Better still if you have a charging cradle put the 3mm jack in the cradle and as soon as your iPhone is placed in it for charging it will silence all but calls and alarms.

Not too exciting but for someone who works and sleeps strange hours it's great.

 

[ILMV]

Is it not possible to use the Gmail app as your email client for another email provider (using pop), could you not then use push that way.

Oh, and I just my phone on silent... that was alarm still works and I only get vibrate when I get an email.

 

[llotse]

Is it not possible to use the Gmail app as your email client for another email provider (using pop), could you not then use push that way.

Oh, and I just my phone on silent... that was alarm still works and I only get vibrate when I get an email.

That is possible and I direct all my mail through Gmail, mainly due to the excellent spam filter. I can't seem to send from my original email account when using push though it always comes from the Gmail account. Anyone know better?

I can put my phone on silent but then I would miss call outs from work. For a £1 3.5mm phone jack from Maplins this makes the iPhone work exactly as I need automatically as soon as I dock it.