Push notification and battery drain

[iphone2000]

More of an FYI than an issue, a lot of people don't understand push notification will impact your iPhone battery.  If you don't rely on the motion notification, or only enable it sometimes,  it's better to just enable it when you want it via your iPhone settings.  In other words you can take quick view of your cameras with push notification set off "under settings on iPhone" then your battery won't get hit.  A little overkill but battery life is like GOLD. A nice feature add would be to turn push notification off on the iPhone if all cameras in iCam were set to off for motion.

[Stefan]

It is true that any additional feature usually does impact battery life (3G instead of EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.)

I do wonder, however, if you have Push enabled for, say, e-mail, if enabling Push Notifications for applications will further drain your battery. I am assuming that it is all the same connection to Apple's "Push Server" ... But I am not really sure. I would assume that if you enabled it for one application (say iCam) that any additional applications that you enabled it for (AIM, etc.) wouldn't have any additional affect.

Thanks for posting that, though. It is useful information. 

[iphone2000]

Well in my instance, I have push email, but under settings on my iPhone, Notifications was set to 'Off' prior to installing iCam.  When I installed iCam app, I also paid for the push notification.  I noticed a surprising drain on my battery and after some research it's typical (even Apple says 20%).  So, when I went into the Notifications setting, iCam was the only app showing.  I just toggle that back on, when I want motion notification (which is really only when I'm on vacation, best of both worlds.