Iphone 2.0: Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free
David
One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If you don’t want to shell out $100 for MobileMe and you don’t have a Microsoft Exchange server lying around, you’re stuck pulling data or manually syncing it to your computer. But, if you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, you can set up push email and wireless contact and calendar syncing using the free Microsoft Exchange service Mail2Web.
What’s the Big Deal with Push?
If you’ve never carried a company-issue BlackBerry, you may be wondering what makes push so special. Let’s start with email: Without push email, your phone has to check in with your server every now and then to determine whether or not you’ve got any new email—it has to pull the email from your email server. With push email, your phone gets an alert as soon as new mail arrives—it’s pushed from the server to your phone as soon as it’s available.
Now if we extend that to our contacts and calendars, push functionality means instantaneous, wireless syncing of our contacts and events. If you add a new contact to your phone, it’ll automatically sync to the Mail2Web Exchange server and—depending on your setup—to your desktop application of choice. Likewise, if you were to tweak a contact’s email address on your desktop, you can sync it to Mail2Web and then wirelessly to your iPhone or iPod touch.
What Can I Expect?
You may not want to switch your email to Mail2Web just so you can get push email, or maybe you prefer using Google Calendar to the Exchange calendar you get with Mail2Web. The great part of this is that you can pick and choose exactly which aspects you want to use depending on your current setup. So when you’re done, you can choose to use any combination of the following features through Mail2Web:
- Push Email
- Push Contacts
- Push Calendar
Sound good? Let’s get started
Iphone 2.0: Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free
Posted on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 12:13 pm 
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