Timer Review
By Angela LaFollette on June 5th, 2012
Timer is a one-tap app designed with a well-polished interface that makes keeping track of multiple timers a breeze.
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Users should see signs of increased battery life as well, as data will be pushed instead of pulled. Under the current system, the Mail application operates under "Fetch", a feature that pulls data to the iPhone at specified intervals (usually every 15 minutes). With the arrival of push notifications, data can now be pushed to a phone from external servers as opposed to be being pulled by phone:
Fetch (Data Pulling)
iPhone --> Talks to servers --> Pulls any data from serversPush (Data Pushing)
Servers talk to Apple --> Apple Push Notification Service --> iPhoneAs you can see, in the former (fetch) it is the iPhone that does all the work. With push, it's the third party servers.
We'll have a review of GPush up within a few days of its release. Check back soon!
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