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A new iPhone app that launched today will further enable your addiction to checking your Gmail account by notifying you of new e-mail similar to the way you receive text messages.
That app is called GPush. Specifically designed for Gmail users, the app displays the "From" and "Subject" fields of a new e-mail on the standby screen as soon as the e-mail is received. The app takes advantage of support for push-notification in Apple's new iPhone 3.0 operating system. Although the iPhone's built-in mail client supports push e-mail, notifying you whenever a new message comes in, its notices don't include any information about the messages.
The target audience? Clearly workaholics (such as myself), who obsessively check their e-mail every few minutes. I put the app to the test and found it delivered on its promise rather well: Each test e-mail I sent to myself took about three seconds to push to my standby screen in that familiar bubbly box. Not bad.
I just had two complaints: 1.) No support for multiple accounts, meaning you can only obsessively watch one of your Gmail inboxes; and 2.) Only one sound, the Tri-tone, is working with the notifications (I personally find that sound really annoying). However, GPush developer Tiverias Apps told Wired.com these common complaints would be addressed in future upgrades of the app.
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GPush is $1 in the App Store.
Download Link [iTunes] (Thanks, David!)
