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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
As title. I've had Blackberry owners extolling the virtues of "push e-mail" to me, but I have no idea what this means. My Hero bongs every now and again with the sound of new e-mail arriving, is this push e-mail, or is this different? Please put it in layman's terms. Yours, a very confused L_U. 
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| Author: | Nick [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
It's the difference between a phone checking at regular intervals whether there is a new e-mail, or the server informing the phone that there is a new e-mail available right away. My phone is set to check for new e-mail every hour. It might mean I get to read an e-mail 59 minutes earlier if I have it set to push. Then again, I could just set it to check every 5 minutes, then the benefit would only be 4 minutes. |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
So, to paraphrase Nick, it's the difference between controlling your life, or letting others control it for you. 
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
Nick's basically summed it up. pop3 is pull email as the client makes the request Push email is sent to the client by the server. Push email also has a permanent connection between client & server |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
Oh right OK, thanks for this. I think I'm happy with my phone checking every 5 minutes. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
I tend to "pull" - I prefer to check my emails when I want to. |
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| Author: | koli [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
Just to give you an idea, with push email I get emails approx. 5s after they've been sent. Pretty useful if you want to have an email conversation with emails flying back and forth... |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? |
Push eats battery power too. Well, it seems that way on the iphone. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:53 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: OK Stupid Question - But What is "Push" e-mail? | |||||||||
Yep. It eats about an extra 5-7% a day in battery power, in GPRS/EDGE, more if you leave the phone in 3G mode - 3G is a battery hog anyway, so I only turn it on when I actually need it, which is about once every 5 or 6 weeks at the moment... |
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