Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

Sargun Dhillon xbmodder+openmoko at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 02:00:23 CET 2009


IMAP IDLE is not a push mechanism... SMS is a push mechanism.
Something that doesn't require the FR to be out of suspend mode before
a push... Also,  tinymail is designed around e-mail messages, and
isn't designed as a general purpose push mechanism.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Graeme Gregory <graeme at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
>> Tiny mail is query based, or pull. That means it eats up more
>> batteries than a push based system, also it is not a general purpose
>> push framework...
>>
>>
> Not so true, tinymail will use IMAP IDLE if available and that is a push
> mechanism.
>
> Graeme
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