I previewed IM+’s 3.4 update in my review of the app a little while ago. The most notable feature I knew of back then was the text-to-speech feature that they added as an in-app purchase ($0.99/month), but I found the conversion from voice to text to take a little too long to be of any real use to me. However, the 3.4 update does add another feature that I haven’t seen in other IM applications: push e-mail support. Apparently, you can add your Gmail and Hotmail (Yahoo! is coming) accounts to the app and receive push notifications for new e-mails. I haven’t seen what these notifications look like, but it’s a cool little extra feature for people who don’t want to shell out for push-specific applications like Boxcar.
Anyway, the app update is free as usual ($10 if you haven’t bought IM+ before), and you can pick it up now on iTunes.
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TAGS: IM+, push notifications, text to speech, voice to text
