Expect a few BlackBerry announcements this week from the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, but here’s the first: BlackBerry app developers now have access to push, meaning apps will have the same push powers as email. [RIM]
Something significant has obviously delayed the original September launch of push notifications, Apple’s solution to not allowing apps to run in the background. MacRumors hears that Apple is considering allowing real background processes instead.
The latest iPhone 2.2 operating system fixes many things, but something is still missing: Push notification services. Once again, Apple has missed the opportunity to enable push notification in a new update, which is especially bad after they failed to meet their self-imposed September deadline. That makes it almost two months late now. So what’s the problem? Is the cause just a technical glitch or maybe there are other hidden, last-minute reasons behind it?
Announced a couple days ago at the BlackBerry Developers Conference, BlackBerry Web Signals drops customisable push content on your phone from most news sources under the sun: New York Times, Fox News, Reuters, Accuweather and more. Once you’re set up, Web Signals will push news straight to your BlackBerry—since you know, news the economy is actually in great shape could arrive at any minute. [BlackBerry via BGR]
So here I’m in Neeeew Yooork. Teeeeerrific! (That’s my Andy Warhol impersonation). One of the first things I did this week was to get a US mobile phone contract, and since I was there, what the heck, I replaced my broken-screen iPhone with a brand new iPhone 3G–which required a $US500 deposit because I have no credit history in this country. But I digress. The important thing is that I discovered that one of the best things about this phone–the one that truly made it a BlackBerry killer–didn’t work after I tried it: Push notification services are not working yet.
