However, I then sold my 3G and bought a 3G S, and push has not worked once, even though it comes loaded with the 3.0 update. So WTF?

Note: Mail sync is not yet supported. You may receive error messages if you attempt to turn on Sync for Mail.

So from what I can see there is no Gmail Push since after you setup your gmail account using the Other option (not Gmail) when setting up a new account, you only get the option for Fetch, no Push.

How do you set up Gmail through exchange? any tips or web site links would be great – Thanks!

And a good IM client would be nice.

For those of you who want Gmail push you have to set it up manually using imap. Using the iphones built in gmail setup only gives you pop3. This has always been available, I set mines up as soon as I realized the default setup only gives you fetch.

On the iphone go to add account and choose other. Then fill out the fields. You can find the necessary info in gmail settings under imap/forwarding.

Good luck.

If Apple allowed background processing, this wouldn’t be an issue – all the polling for new tweets would be done at the app level. But with a PNS model, it has to be done server-side, which makes it a potentially expensive and complex service for someone to provide.

It’s like a shitty episode of the Twilight Zone.

Yeah what I ment was going out of the app to check other stuff and go safari lol. I know about the shake to reload but thanks for the tip! If I leave the app I want to be notified when someone leaves a comment so I don’t have to wast time checking it again and again haha.

not a big fan of AP mobile even though it now has push.

The latest version of the AP app has become absolutely unusable. It takes nearly 30 seconds from launch till current content is shown. When you do get a notification, it is not at all obvious which story it pertains to.

But mostly its just DOG slow.

On a 3G phone using wifi: New York Times = 6 seconds from launch to current content. USA-Today = 6 seconds from launch to current content. Google News (web link) = 6-12 seconds from launch to content. AP = 29 seconds from launch to current content

Maybe faster on a 3Gs.

Any nominations for a good new reader that is not just an aggregater? I have Google News and Google Reader for that functionality

Most heavy todo users (I am not one, but have supported them in the past) want their todo entries separate from their calendar. You could fake much of it on the calendar, but the todo items can obscure what you are actually doing on that day/time, and there are some awkward mismatches. Are you free or busy when the calendar hits “ToDo Clean Kitchen?” Do you really need to do it at 3:30PM-5:00PM, or just get to it at some point during the day? Doing it on the Calendar would also not provide you any feedback about overdue tasks, since, once the date is past, you either have to reschedule the Calendar event, or it is gone.

Many todo users also want both categorization (which you could emulate using multiple calendars, I suppose) and prioritizations (P1/P2/P3), and I doubt you could differentiate your todo items in multiple dimensions using the Calendar app.

That said, I am not sure how well NotifyMe fills those needs, either, but those are a few things a pure Calendar workaround does not help. A native todo list that does not rely on external push certainly would be nice…

I have noticed that the beejive yahoo mail pushing this week has sucked though, not sure if it’s beejive or yahoo at fault.

I’m a bit interested in notifyme now, after seeing the site and info on it, plus I’d like a good news app with push as well, not a big fan of AP mobile even though it now has push.

@Michael Denney:

There are numerous issues with 3.0 such as Wifi issues, Safari crashes, and other oddities that I would rather see fixed before push notifications personally but hey, that’s just me.

Agreed that there are lots of bugs.

But I don’t see 3.0.1 coming anytime soon, because most of the bugs are minor. I think we are going to have to live with these problems till September time frame.

I don’t think its the same Apple developers working on getting push apps into the app store as fixing the OS anyway.

To the guy that said we won’t gonna see Twitter apps with push soon, you’re wrong, there’s at least one that was submited.

Regarding apple not managing to fully launch push after a YEAR of promises, there is a name for that: FAIL NOTIFICATIONS

I am disappointed in the Facebook app as well at this point. I updated my review a few weeks ago to lower the stars since the iPhone app seems to get no attention now. They change the online layout way too much and the iPhone app hasn’t gotten an update in months and has many bugs and it’s formatting doesn’t even fit with the online version anymore.

I want my phone to be able to do what it’s supposed to do at a base level before I complain about it not doing something it’s never done before even if it was “supposed” to have been doing it all along.

Has anyone wandered over to the PowerBase website (linked in the original post) and figured out any possible rationale for their NotifyMe?

What does it do that alarms of Calendar does not do, other than doing it thru the network, for no apparent gain in functionality.

As for Beejive? $15? Are you kidding? Way to expensive for what it does.

Here is the short reason why: http://bit.ly/rXRY8

I meet you your bi-hourly and raise you quad-hourly.

I have been looking forward to Beejive, but, after testing TextFree with Push, I am going to wait and see. With TextFree, sometimes the notifications come in a couple of minutes, but sometimes they come a couple of hours later. I am hoping this is an issue with TextFree, but if it proves a problem with Apple’s underlying push notification service, I am going to take a pass — if an INSTANT Messenger cannot be instant, there is not much point.

Maybe Apple needs a liver transplant.

Facebook? Are you on crack? They actually had a new release just yesterday, which apparently only added “3.0 compatibility”. Oh yay, they recompiled on new libs. Are they actually still paying this application any attention? I was rather hoping they’d fix more bugs and — oh my gosh! — maybe even update the News tab so that instead of the poppycock arrangement that’s there now we might have a display similar to the /current/ news display in the web site.

I’ve gotten to the point where I almost don’t use the Facebook app at all because I can’t get an accurate display of articles in News, so I just bounce into the web app.

Aim

Myspace

This is making 3.0 launch really lame. Barely any updates for apps are coming out and they are all crApps, nothing good. I still can’t leave reviews in the app store!

And QuickPegion – wery nice push app.

Corse, IM needed. Palringo is coming…

1. Beejive IM

2. Twitterrific & TwitterFon (I use both)

3. Newsstand or Byline (I use both as my RSS reader)

4. Bank of America (I’m hoping they implement it so I can get a badge every time there’s a new transaction on one of my cards. It’s possible right?)

That’s pretty much it.

If every app had push at least there is the option to use it for people who want it.

Where is Google Latitude for iPhone? That’s the only reason I wanted 3.0.

I love the idea of the Twitter @reply push. That would be great.

Fuck you and everyone who bought an Iphone but thank you for your purchase. We will be launching more push notifications when we feel like it. Until then hold on to your panties and calm down.

Love, Apple

but where the poo is all the peer to peer gaming i want to bloody play the ngmoco:) first person shooter