This week’s Top 6 iPhone apps that push…

Wed, Jun 17, 2009

... Apple iPhone 3GS, Apple iPhone 3G, News, Push Notifications, iPhone Software, iTunes App Store

Today is the day that Apple turn on Apple Push Notifications for iPhone. What does that mean for you and I? Well… every app that you wish wouldn’t ‘logout’ when you quit, now doesnt. For example, you are using IM+ and are logged in to MSN Messenger on your iPhone… When you hit the home key, rather than logging you out, it now STAYS connected, and so all your friends will still see you as ‘online’, and if they message you, you get a pop up on your iPhone like an SMS. Apple’s super smart technology has enabled this to work with all your favourite apps and not drain the battery life.

Every week, we will release this weeks Top 10 Apps that support Push. This is so new, on launch there is only one app (AIM) that supports Push. However later today, we expect other apps to go live with Push Support. Here is our first list of apps that support push, that ’should’ be released in the next day or so. If you already have these apps, you just need to update them in the App Store.

Tap Tap Revenge 2.5 With Themes

Picture 3.png

You’ll receive pop up alerts when a friend challenges you to a game and the app’s icon will be badged with a count for unread feed items.

AP News

Picture 4.png

Developers have been testing push notifications on the Associated Press news application. Expect breaking news and/or unread badge counts.

AIM

Picture 5.png
Developers have been testing push notifications on a pre-release version of AIM. This is the first of many chat apps to get push notifications. We’ve been using this app for the past week and its brilliant.

Birthday Reminder

Picture 6.png

Developer advertises app will be able to notify you of upcoming birthdays using push notifications.

Voice4mail

Picture 7.png

Send and receive voicemails. Developer advertises with release of OS 3.0, app will use push notifications to tell you about new messages.

IM+

Picture 8.png

IM+ 3.0 is push notification ready as of the latest version. IM+ 3.0 supports most of the popular services including, Twitter, Skype, Facebook, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, MySpace. Already advertised as 3.0 ready, this app will require an update when 3.0 is officially launched.

Related iPhone News

, , ,
  • freewowcards
    Same here Joesar,


    I used it as well. I do thank the person who posted this blog, very helpful.
  • Name
    after the app updates (palringo, here) if you hit 'don't allow' by accident, can it be reset??
  • joesar
    Hi,
    I am using msn on IM+ lite on Iphone
    i dont know how to sign out from MSN on IM+ lite and i dont know how to make the IM+ forget my log in details
    the mobile can be used by others and i can't leave my login details
    thanks to whom will help
  • AIM works for me.
  • IM+ looks good.
  • olgaS
    Have you tried Task2Gather app?
    Task2Gather for iPhone now has PUSH for New Items and PUSH for New Comments.
    T2G is a great Collaborative Tool and it has great Sharing Options (on the go and on the web). Use it as a todo list for daily errands, reminders for your kids, wife or husband.
  • elise
    my gmail was pushing beautifully on my iPhone 3G right after I downloaded and installed 3.0. I was so excited that it was finally working.

    However, then I sold my 3G and bought a 3G S, and... no push. For anything. Not app store, gmail, AIM, anything. Which makes me kind of pissed off. Yeah, I gain the video functionality, voice commands, and compass, plus woohoooooooo speed, but... i lose such a valuable feature as gmail push? wtf.
  • Presumably because the notification is coming from the Apple servers, and the actual message comes seperately message does not arrive to your app until you open the app and it connects to the IM service.

    What you saw in the videos doesn't sound right!
  • Steve
    To Matt: I have the same problem with Yahoo mail, it only checks Mail when I run the Mail App. Have not found a solution yet.
  • JO-Dawg
    Why is it in AIM when I click view it doesn't go straight to the message. It goes to active IM's and then I have to find the conversation the new message is in. In the videos of AIM push on youtube I see when they push view it goes straight to the conversation with the keyboard. I have an ipod touch 2g.
  • Loopelisa
    I am in the UK and recently updated the free version of AIM, i can set it to push in preferences and in general phone settings I have notifications turned on for AIM. So all should be well and pushing, but it simply isn't! Not the way it should be anyway, so far i have received two push notifications, one in a pollen app and the other in AIM, but AIM took about 10 hours to push one message!!! I thought it was supposed to be more or less instantly.

    Who else is having problems in UK???
  • iPhone3.0fiend
    Yea, I'd love to know more about this Gmail now supporting Push because I haven't hear anything about it. Frankly, if Yahoo is doing it Gmail should be doing it better. Please elaborate Amar.
  • lvidal
    Tried AIM and Beejive, push didn't work in neither of them. I'm not in US, which one of you are in US. Maybe is for US Residents only :/
  • Joel
    Beejive 3.0 update out with Push Notification!
  • who
    BeejiveIM 3.0 was released the other day and push notifications are working well for me. It currently supports GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, ICQ, Jabber, Myspace. Great app, but a bit pricey.
  • NakkiNyan
    Amar, if you have Gmail pushing please let us know how. The Gmail account (IMAP) has only 2 settings on iPhone, Fetch and Manual. Google's exchange server (m.google.com) does not support Gmail only contacts and calendars, explained here http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer...
  • Zero
    I was still wondering why wouldnt push be available in the free version of aim and im +.
  • im+ are releasing another version 3.1 very soon, it is in review by apple at the moment so expect it soon. it will have push. yahoo mail should be pushing, just reset your settings again..or maybe the servers are down. in addition gmail now pushes mail to the iphone even though it isn't stated anywhere.
  • Matt
    My yahoo mail push stopped working as soon as I downloaded the 3.0 update. Is anybody else having this same problem. Any advice on how to fix it?

    Thanks.
  • admin
    IM+ are currently waiting for Apple to approve the 3.0 version with Push Notifications... Obviously Apple wouldn't approve that update before 3.0 comes out.

    But IM+ with Push is very VERY cool... definately worth using... We are expecting push notification apps to be appearing in force early next week, so don't worry if you've already purchased IM+... the update does support push.

    Hope that helps.
  • Nick
    Im 3.0 is definitely misleading. I would just wait for aim, yahoo, or google.

    Sillyness
  • In regards to IM+ 3.0, it currently is not available, it is being released as an update in IM+ 3.1. It states that in the app store when viewing the actual IM+ 3.0 app.

    Same goes for AIM, it is finalizing its beta testing now, but has not disclosed it release date. Also, remember this will only be available in the pay versions of both apps.
  • People you really need to read. AIM's push notifications are in version currently only available to developers for testing. I do have it and it definitely works. IM+ info on this page is incorrect but it clearly says on the app store page that push notifications will come in version 3.1 which is currently in the review process.
  • mike
    Brendan Says:
    June 18th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Whydoesnt the push notification work in IM+ it says it is the 3.0 update… Is there supposed to be another update coming for this
    app?? I know about the settings and notifications tab, but IM+ isn’t there. Am I missing something?

    -------

    yeah it needs an update and will hopefully be soon!
  • Ethan
    i'm not getting the AIM push notification option either...thought it was something glitchy on the OS 3.0 update...but seeing others w/o it as well...how is it the first app to have it pre-launch and then not live for public release...major party foul...
  • Larry
    I noticed the same thing. I purchased IM+ 3.0 this morning, and it does not have push notifications in it.
  • grace
    None for me in AIM. :(
  • I just downloaded and tested IM+ 3.0 and it seems to stay active when closed, and receives the message, but it doesn't put the badge in the corner to notify you of them, I'm hoping that they update this, because it's a bit pointless to stay online if you don't know if you have any messages or not :P
  • Brendan
    Whydoesnt the push notification work in IM+ it says it is the 3.0 update... Is there supposed to be another update coming for this
    app?? I know about the settings and notifications tab, but IM+ isn't there. Am I missing something?
  • Suraj
    I am not getting push notifications with AIM. Is anyone else?
  • And what about NotifyMe? Waiting for approvement for more than week now.
blog comments powered by Disqus