So its been a few months now since I switched over from my own exchange hosted email to using Apple’s iCloud in combination with an @me.com email address. The calendar, contact and note syncing all seem to be working great, but my push for email rarely works as promised.
Most of the time, when my phone is locked and in my pocket, emails will not be received until I manually check by opening the mail.app.
Not sure why Apple still hasn’t gotten this right, blackberry has been doing push email for 10 years now!
I have heard reports that push works fine with gmail, and I can verify personally that it works fine with exchange hosted email accounts, but apples own iCloud email doesnt properly push.
Not my only gripe with Apple at the moment, but having to keep my phone on a timer schedule to check my mail is ridiculous.
Been in Kiev for a couple days now, and have tried all the carriers that sprint has an agreement with (there’s 3 or 4).
None appear to have 3G, at least one doesn’t even provide data service at all (could be because sprint has a voice only agreement with them).
All are very slow, but do seem to have good coverage.
So this month I used over 5gb of international data. They haven’t contacted me yet but I have a feeling this is going to be the end of my relationship with sprint.