Discussing apps (in particular their design and usability) that people have installed or want to install - with reviews from people who have actually tried out the app (what a concept!)
"You heard that right, folks. People complaining that Apple’s very-much-delayed push notification service might be delayed again can all relax — Beejive 3.0, the fantastic new version with push support will be going live in about an hour or so from now. We exclusively gave you a look at Beejive for iPhone almost a year ago, and you have to give us some credit — we called it the best IM application for the iPhone, and were we right? Now think about push notifications and a whole slew of other additions and tweaks and you’re looking at a desktop-class IM application. We’ve been using a version with push for a pretty long time and can safely say it doesn’t disappoint. Here’s a breakdown of the new goodies and let us know when you try the new version!"
- Andrew Trinh
from Bookmarklet
Push is a crappy workaround for no backgrounded apps.
- Christopher A Carr
In my opinion push is a smart way of reducing memory, battery and processor consumption.
- Mustafa Bayındır
Mustafa: Just don't run too many apps at the same time.
- Christopher A Carr
I like how you no longer need to keep apps in the background but they screwed up battery efficiency. It's just as bad as if you would have backgrounded applications.
- Andrew Trinh
On Android (and the same is the case with WebOS), I get unobtrusive notifications when messages come in. I get these notifications, because the IM app is still running while I'm doing something else...
- Christopher A Carr
What I mean; If the computer/OS allows backgrounding without reducing resources then nop. Otherwise "any" number of backgrounded app. will consume "something".
- Mustafa Bayındır
This was the first non-free app I purchased. Took me almost a year.
- Mark Philpot
Though for some reason, I keep getting notifications saying X service disconnected. Isn't Beejive supposed to keep you connected all the time?
- Mark Philpot
Make sure you've set your sessions time in the Settings to 24 hours.
- Andrew Trinh
Beejive stopped working for me all of a sudden. It looks like their servers can't handle all the traffic or something.
- Johnny Chadda
Beejive has returned but push notifications seem to be disabled. I'm hoping this isn't the same flop with push notifications as it was with MobileMe.
- Andrew Trinh
I have received your comment as a push message:)
- Mustafa Bayındır
from IM
I'm getting push notifications back too! Although not all of them come through.
- Andrew Trinh
It seems to have started working again now!
- Johnny Chadda
While our government scratches its chin over the evils of overpriced cellphone text messaging, technology is fighting the battle faster. Specifically, Apple's new "push notifications" system -- and others like it -- could start the disruption process that could force wireless carriers to price text messages far cheaper than they are today. AOL's new AIM app for the iPhone -- available now in free, ad-supported, and $2.99, no-ad flavors -- is the start. It's the first major IM app for the iPhone's new 3.0 software that includes push notifications.
- Johnny
Or better - a Twitter client that pushes DM notifications.
- Oliver Bouchard
I'm still waiting for a solid Friendfeed client. :( But I like your idea about DMs
- Johnny
I don't think so. After reading the article I decided to download AIM and give it a try and I've been texting with my GF and some friends with push notification working flawlessly. You can also access your contacts and Text rather than IM
- Johnny
Clark, my friend says that she is texting from her phone, not AIM. I reply within the program itself.
- Johnny
The disruptive part is when *BOTH SIDES* switch to mobile IM. If you are using AIM's SMS gateway, then it's not really eliminating the overpriced SMS service. Ok, they aren't double-dipping on the SMS any more, but it's still there. SMS is broken on many levels; not just pricing. Why should we still be using arbitrary phone numbers for text messages? What if I want to switch my SIM to a...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
Which is why this AIM app with Apple's new star-spangled Push garbage is no more disruptive than any of the other mobile platforms that have been doing proper mobile IM for years...
- Christopher A. Wichura
"Read Later allows you to save web pages to your iPhone/iPod touch that have been tagged in Delicious for offline reading. If you've applied a "to_read" tag to any of your bookmarks in Delicious, Read Later will find these items and save them to your iPhone for offline reading. Once you've read the items offline, Read Later will update your Delicious account removing the relevant "to_read" tags. All web pages are cleaned and stripped of irrelevant adverts for easy reading on the iPhone."
- browneyes
from Bookmarklet
push depends on email provider - .mac allows it but other services like google don't have push available. with mobile me which i use, push is available for calendars. If I make a change on my calendar on my mac it's on my phone within seconds.
- Mike Bracco
yeah no problem :) push is something I wish was available across all my accounts. It works great for contacts and calendars if you have mobileme though.
- Mike Bracco
"★ Free only during a limited introductory period! ★ Hey Where Are You, or HeyWAY, is a new location service that lets you keep track of where friends, family and colleagues are. Send alerts with your current location to your followers, or send "Hey, Where Are You?" alerts requesting their location. Because HeyWAY uses Apple's brand new Push Notification Service, your alerts are delivered even when the application is not running."
- browneyes
from Bookmarklet
Anyone know of any Push Apps for the iPhone? I can't believe that most of the twitter apps don't allow you to have Push notifications when there's a new @relpy or DM. So, do you know of any Push Notification apps, or heard any news of any?
Thanks for the head's up Carlos! I posted the linked Dev-Team Blog article here: http://ff.im/41oQI Not surprised at all... but it will now be interesting to see when the first 3G[s] surfaces on an unofficial network. It's nice to know that once I take the sim outta my current 3g to pop it into the new 3g, I can still use my old non-contract phone as a phone. Albeit I shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops, but Cheers to the iPhone Dev Team once again!
- Walt Ruppar
"The Seattle area's favorite travel guru, Rick Steves, is releasing a series of new iPhone apps that are designed to help travelers discover the hidden gems of Rome and Paris. The $4.99 app for Paris, for example, includes a drop down audio box that includes narration from Steves as visitors pass by places such as Notre Dame and the Latin Quarter."
- andrei_c
from Bookmarklet
I think it will mostly be used by existing web apps with an existing infrastructure which only make a new frontend for that service for the iPhone.
- Thomas Bøhm
I'm definitely waiting for push notifications, too, although I think background apps would be even better, if Apple would allow it / figure out how to not make them drain the battery.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I've been playing with push on the latest AIM beta app. The alerts are almost instant, probably because not many people are using it right now, but overall, the experience is pretty good.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Oh, that's good to hear. Do you think the notifications will be affected when 3.0 is available to (and downloaded by) everybody?
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I'm not sure if it will, but from what I remember, don't forget that push requires 2 extra servers (or banks of servers). Apple provide the push to iPhone, but the 3rd party also needs it's own service. It remains to be seen how this will affect the service, but from what I've played with, ie AIM push, it's is very good. The AIM app is a bit crap though.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
iPhone OS 3.0 may not be available to the masses for a couple days yet, but that's not stopping Tapulous (nor Apple's App Store overlords, apparently) from rolling out a new version of its ridiculously popular Tap Tap Revenge that's fully ready to take advantage of push notifications right here and right now. We've taken the new build for a spin, and in brief, it works as designed -- notification times ranged from near instantaneous to just under a minute. One of our editors here was testing on a cellular connection and the other was on a SIM-less iPhone 3G running just WiFi, so it looks like this setup will work pretty seamlessly regardless of what kind of connection you happen to be enjoying / tolerating / loathing at the moment.
- Andrew Trinh
from Bookmarklet
Now to play the waiting game until other apps update and enable push notifications.
- Andrew Trinh