Push email from Gmail to iPhone

I’ve been looking for a good push solution from Gmail/Google Apps to iPhone. Not necessarily the email push since I’m not really bothered with the 15/30 minute delay caused by pulling it (except its effects on the battery life), but having push for contacts and calendar events. Quite often I get someone’s mobile number and add it to my phone’s address book. Then I need to have that on another computer. At the moment, I have to sync my iPhone (iTunes) with Google contacts. Sync is always problematic. There are duplicates, and also if you have more than one sync client (like another PC or Mac) then you’re just asking for trouble. I quite like the MobileMe solution but don’t want to move all my contacts, emails since 1997 and calendar events to MobileMe just for this purpose. Plus, MobileMe does 15 minute syncs on PC and Mac instead of instant push (which it does on iPhone) and also it does not support custom domains (at least yet). I am quite happy with my Google Apps hosting for email, contacts and calendar and would like to see a real over-the-air sync solution from Google. Something like Exchange ActiveSync would be ideal, so you can see Google Apps like an Exchange server.

I know there are services like NuevaSync, but firstly they are in beta, secondly you will be exposed to the risk of their business going down (which is much more likely to happen compared to Google’s), thirdly they are still syncing with Google.

For now, lets just sign this petition: Push Email for Gmail