<div>Doesn't both push and polling operate over any old standard TCP/IP connection (which AFAIK the iPhone has)?</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: I'm getting into "I'm not 100% sure what I'm talking about" territory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- Ben</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Marcus Cobden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mc08r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc08r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 19 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Philip Boulain wrote:<br>
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> Hugh Glaser wrote:<br>
>> I think you may find that "push" is on by default.<br>
>> If you switch it off, going back to polling for email...you may get<br>
>> back to "normal".<br>
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> That seems odd. Isn't the point of push mail that it's more<br>
> efficient, avoiding the need for the phone to keep transmitting<br>
> "Hey! Do I have any mail yet? What about now? What about now?"<br>
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</div>The design choice probably came down to cost.<br>
It's cheaper and easier to code it that way than to ask the carriers<br>
to invest in new hardware and software updates on their networks so<br>
they can do it right.<br>
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