Gmail started pushing mail on iPhone?

Hi, I noticed a very strange thing yesterday.
All of a sudden my Gmail account on my iPhone has started receiving push emails (this is a good thing).
I found a bit strange that nowhere I read about it.
I have push on (for Gmail calendars) and fetch 'every hour' (for Gmail) but I receive mails almost instantly.
The only thing I changed was the fetch thing (before it was set on manually).
I even disabled push and I got mails instantly.
Anyone?
I noticed a big impact on battery...this make me wonder if it's a bug and the mail client is always open in background with this configuration or Gmail really activated push (I doubt it).
Are they just testing?
Anyone?

I just spent a half hour testing this and it works!
Here's the deal:
-emails get pushed after a minute or so and the email badge is updated
-if you archive or delete messages and don't get emails the email badge doesn't update
-if you archive or delete messages and then get an email/emails when the email is pushed the email badge will update with the correct number of unread emails
I checked all this without opening the email app so I know it's getting pushed.
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Install.
You should be in business after this. I still have a few bugs to work out, but at least I can confirm that the pushmail works. And well at that.
I will report more in the morning -
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Scott

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