Summary

It's important to consider the practicality of notifications in your wireless applications. Because the very nature of a notification is to be intrusive, you must carefully consider whether the user would welcome that intrusion. You may allow users to customize their own preferences regarding notifications in your application. With so much debate about unwanted junk email, it is highly unlikely that users will tolerate unsolicited notifications on their WAP mobile phones, especially since they'll be paying for the airtime it takes to receive that content. Notifications are useful tools, but think carefully about how you deploy them so that they truly service the end user.