According to a recent report over on TechCrunch, it looks like we may be getting (a form of) Push notification for Gmail on the iPhone. I do feel that it is important to say “a form of” because the Push support is coming in the form of a 99 cent app called GPush, which from as best as I can tell will have some good points and bad points.

To begin with, the price seems to be pretty fair, however this Push, due to the fact that is comes from an app and not native from Gmail will mean more pop-up alerts on your iPhone
. Personally, those bug me, but on the plus side, you will get a small preview of the email in the form of who it is from along with the subject line.

According to the information that I have read, the app is simple to use and only requires you to login to your Gmail account and after that you will begin getting alerts. The one drawback that I see is that I cannot tell whether this will be able to support multiple Gmail accounts. Otherwise, the email alerts are noted as taking “about 10-30 seconds” to show up, which in my opinion is pretty reasonable.

Additionally, in terms of battery life, it appears as if that will not be much of an issue, because GPush is doing the work in the background. The heavy lifting, or in this case, the frequent checking is done on “Tiverias‘ (the company behind the app) servers.”

All in all, I think this may be worth a look, that is assuming it passes the test and makes it into the App Store. According to the developer, it should be approved because “nothing went into the code that violated either Apple’s or Google’s Terms of Service,”
Techcrunch

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