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Due to push notifications on your iPod and iPhone, you can easily get all the relevant (and a few of those irrelevant) news concerning messages and events on your app. This is a great way to interact with your Viber while it works in the background, without the need to actually open the application. What is the optimal usage of Viber for iPhone and how can you get the most of it with a little help of push notifications? Read in the articles below.

What devices are not supported?

Motorola Flipout

The simplest and easiest thing to say would be that Viber works on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices, with some exceptions. Here is a list of currently not supported devices or systems by Viber. iPhone 2g Probably because of Edge only internet connection. Android OS less than 2.0 … Continue reading

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Official announcement – optimal usage of Viber for iPhone

Viber for iPhone

Viber’s Social Media department today announced a letter to all their users (iPhone users actually) regarding the optimal usage of Viber application. So here it is: We would like to deliver a message from our company to all our users: Recently there have been some complaints about Viber calls that … Continue reading

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Does Viber decreases battery life?

Smartphone Battery

Viber is a lightweight application and the battery usually doesn’t get drained by it. When you are placing an actual call, it does spend the battery, however. When being run in the background, Viber sends occasional keep-alive signals to the central server, just to acknowledge that the application is ready. … Continue reading

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What are the iPhone push notifications?

Apple Push Notification Service

Push notifications refer to a service that allows your iPhone applications to receive data even when they are completely turned off (not even working in the background, simply not having been started at all). When your iPhone receives a push notification, for example when someone is calling you, your iPhone … Continue reading

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