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Push notifications come to AIM and BeeJive. Is this the end of SMS?

Posted June 23, 2009 5:57 AM by Chris Howard
Categories: Software 

One of the most exciting and anticipated new features of iPhone 3.0 is push notifications. These enable your applications to alert you even when they are not running.

Today we saw updates to AIM and BeeJive to take advantage of push notifications.

But it raises the question: Will this impact on SMSing?

Why pay to SMS a friend when you can send them an IM (instant message) for free?

Obviously this is limited to those in your IM client’s address book. But that is also likely to be the same people you SMS the most, such as your family and friends.

Here in Australia, on our carrier Telstra, we’re lucky, on some deals, to have 1 cent text messages (to others on Telstra), and that is very popular, especially with kids.

But to other carriers it’s 25 cents. And MMSes cost 50 cents.

On other plans and/or carriers some SMSes are included free.

However I know it’s not like that in all parts of the world.

So if you’re on a plan where SMSes and MMSes are expensive, using an IM client would be quite appealing.

Which could then have a nice flow on effect of causing carriers to become more reasonable and competitive with their messaging charges.

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  1. Push notification is broken on ‘hacktivated’ 2g devices.. I’m realy sad, because I wanted this functionality.

    apsd[53]: <APSCourier: 0x108010>: Stream error occurred for <APSTCPStream: 0x1122c0>: TLS Error Code=-9831 “peer reported unknown certificate authority”

    In order to save battery until this is fixed, install push enabled application and disable push in settings.

    Posted by avatar on June 23, 2009 7:27 AM

  2. I’ve tested out Beejive Push and it works well. I’ve been using Beejive for a while and already liked the app, though not cheap, I feel it was worth it. Now with the Push, even better. I also did one test while on EDGE and on the phone. Notification does not come through until you hang up, which is what I was expecting. On EDGE, it’s either voice or data. I would expect if on a call and on wifi(?)it would come through while on the phone.

    Posted by Joel on June 23, 2009 8:56 AM

  3. Beejive states push works through MobileMe… Do I have to be signed up for mobile me for the push notifications to work??

    Posted by Jn on July 8, 2009 9:12 AM

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