While Nokia has always tried to impart smartphone like experience with Asha devices, even before Asha 501, but with new swipe based OS called “ Asha platform” on Asha 501 it has become really very close to full smartphone like navigation and UI experience. Now, a new API called “ Nokia notifications” will bring cloud server-based “push notifications” to new Asha devices. The Nokia Notifications API (introduced with the Nokia Asha software platform 1.0) provides a mechanism to deliver app-specific push messages from a remote server to a Java app.
Notifications bring several advantages over alternative approaches (for instance, periodical server polling) including the following: Message delivery when the app is not running Fast message delivery.