LG just dropped two new phones with social network skills to rival the INQ1, the LG GW520 and the LGT GT505. Who needs invisible keypads when you can find out if you’ve been hit with a virtual frisbee via push updates?
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BlackBerry apps will soon be getting push notification: RIM’s just announced that developers will be able to add realtime alerts to any BlackBerry app, so you’ll get everything you need to know delivered to you instantly, just like iPhone OS 3.0.
Apple’s late on this one. Really late. We first heard about its plans for push notification last year. It’s the neat system that’ll let you receive alerts from apps without them being open all the time, preserving the iPhone’s battery life but giving nearly all the benefits of multi-tasking. And now it’s here, in the iPhone OS 3.0.
iPhone developers just got their hands on brand new iPhone software from Apple, packing the first version of the company’s ‘notification service’. What does it mean? Apps can now get updates from the web, even when they’re not running.
In short, it means chat apps are about to take over the iPhone.
