For some reason everyone sets up their Gmail to their iPhone as a standard mail account. If you do that you miss out on the “push” functionality. Why not “get” your email immediately and have your calendar and contacts synchronize immediately!? No really, why not….?
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you enable this type of synching for contacts and/or Calendar THE PHONE’S CALENDAR AND CONTACTS WILL BE OVERWRITTEN BY THE GMAIL VERSION… Just make sure that you change the proper settings to “OFF” on the screen that looks like this if you don’t want to loose something local:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
If their page is changed, here is an archival copy of the directions: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch for Google Sync
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