I just wanted to touch on this topic because I think it's an important feature of the iPhone, and I think many don't understand it.
For those of us who currently use Blackberry's, we get true push e-mail. What this means is that the moment an e-mail is sent from the sender, it immediately appears on your phone, in fact, it usually only takes a couple of seconds for the e-mail to arrive on the device.
However, not all smart phones have this feature even though they have e-mail capabilities. Most smart phones must be configured to regularly go "check" for a new e-mail at intervals pre-set by you, and this means it must constantly connect to the internet, check for any new messages, then download the message, then disconnect from the internet. As you can imagine, this is a battery killer.
As Steve Jobs mentioned, the iPhone will have free true push e-mail for those who use Yahoo as their e-mail supplier, this is great news to you if you choose to use it, and as a current Blackberry user I am really excited I won't have to give up this great feature once I switch to the iPhone.
Hope this helps anyone interested.
For those of us who currently use Blackberry's, we get true push e-mail. What this means is that the moment an e-mail is sent from the sender, it immediately appears on your phone, in fact, it usually only takes a couple of seconds for the e-mail to arrive on the device.
However, not all smart phones have this feature even though they have e-mail capabilities. Most smart phones must be configured to regularly go "check" for a new e-mail at intervals pre-set by you, and this means it must constantly connect to the internet, check for any new messages, then download the message, then disconnect from the internet. As you can imagine, this is a battery killer.
As Steve Jobs mentioned, the iPhone will have free true push e-mail for those who use Yahoo as their e-mail supplier, this is great news to you if you choose to use it, and as a current Blackberry user I am really excited I won't have to give up this great feature once I switch to the iPhone.
Hope this helps anyone interested.
