Push Notifications

[saldawop]

Am seriously looking at buying a HD2.Does it do Push for email?Instant Messaging?Football scores would be nice (like iFooty on the iPhone)

 

[Archer]

Am seriously looking at buying a HD2.Does it do Push for email?Instant Messaging?Football scores would be nice (like iFooty on the iPhone)

It depends on the email service. I do know that you can set up an exchange server to do push, and it's native for windows live, so that's hotmail covered. I think you can do it with gmail too - best wait for someone to confirm that though.

 

[kenkiller]

Yes, hooking up gmail via MS Exchange give you push mail/calender/contacts

 

[saldawop]

Blimey, you guys are quick .Thanks for the speedy response?

What about for things like Instant Messaging?On my iPhone I have IM+ .When somebody sends me a message on Facebook Chat /Windows Messenger/Twitter it is pushed to my phone?Anything similar on the HD2?
Anything like iFooty?

Whilst not a dealbreaker by any means, it would be nice to have.

 

[Archer]

What about for things like Instant Messaging?On my iPhone I have IM+ .When somebody sends me a message on Facebook Chat /Windows Messenger/Twitter it is pushed to my phone?Anything similar on the HD2?

I've not seen an IM app that handles facebook chat on WM, but that obviously doesn't mean there isn't one. There's a native facebook app, but I don't think it will notify you of messages, and there's a twitter tab on the UI which is mostly good. There's also native windows live that has messenger with it, which is almost as good as messenger on the PC.

Anything like iFooty?

I don't know who that is. Most of the popular iPhone apps have a similar thing available on WM. XDA is the best place to look, but google is just as good a friend when it comes to apps.

 

[Gajet]

Palringo has facebook chat included and is free. You don't use push notifications because you just leave the application running in the background.

 

[Archer]

You don't use push notifications because you just leave the application running in the background.

Yeah, sorry. I should have pointed that out myself. I forget that with the iPhone you could usually only have 1 app running at any time.

 

[greatcapp]

If you try Palringo - please could you let me know if it kills your battery? I think that's what my battery issues were down to.

 

[ardsar]

IM+ by shape services supports facebook chat. Also has a nice feature where you can go off line, and receive messages via email.