Google Apps is great BUT: GMAIL + Blackberry = Horrible

Disclaimer: Google Apps is frackin’ amazing–drop everything and give Google your $50 a year.
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Can someone from Google explain to me why GMail and a Blackberry suck so much when you put them together!?!?!

It seems like pulling GMAIL via POP setting from GMAIL/Google Apps (which I just paid for) results in inconsistency, lost mail, and delays. Forwarding from GMAIL seems slightly better, but still slow and painful.

Blackberry users represent the top 2% of all email users (I made the % up)… if you can’t make Blackberry and GMAIL work together you got a huge problem.

If you can’t get Google Apps GMAIL for $50 a year to work well with Blackberry you’ve got A HUGE SHOW-STOPPING problem. At this point if I can’t get my GMAIL in Google Apps to work with my Blackberry I’m gonna have to cancel my account. I can’t live without instant email.

Will someone from the GMAIL team please respond to this?

Other folks with the same problem including CK, my wife, and this dude. I hear “GMAIL and Blackberry suck together…” all the time when I’m out.

PS – Google Calendar HAS TO have native, wireless sync with my BlackBerry… please Google… simple features for business users. You’ve got like 18,984 PhDs at the Googleplex… I just need like three of them to fix these problems! Seriously, you need to setup a BLACKBERRY ambassador at Google…. it’s that important. :-)

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4 Comments »

  1. I completely agree.

    Once Gmail get going with BB push it will be the last time I will ever use Outlook.
    Microsoft Outlook is just a real 90’s application.

    Someone from BB and Google needs to sort this out. BTW I’m sure they have some political reason not
    to do it. Probably BB has an Agenda with MS.

    Comment by Ronald — October 21, 2008 @ 9:26 am

  2. You are right on!! I have a BB and Gmail account. Every time I responde to an email I get 2 emails . Gmail sucks.

    Comment by sfguy — January 18, 2009 @ 12:30 am

  3. ur doin it rong! Blackberry + IMAP + GMail.

    Comment by Bonzo — February 24, 2009 @ 8:59 am

  4. no UR doin it rong! Gmail Blackberry app is the best!

    Comment by Daniel — April 15, 2009 @ 10:00 pm

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