I thought about writing something like this for Android, but after thinking about it more, I don't see the point. My IMAP client can IDLE, so I get new messages (and a notification) instantly. Twidroid could (but doesn't) long-poll and get instant notifications too. GTalk is also push.<p>The only thing that I can't do on Android right now is get irc notifications without being connected to my irc proxy. This was why I was originally going to write something like this, but the problem is that no service is going to get private messages properly. Unless it is run on each server (doubt Freenode is going to let me bug their network), or the user runs their own client, it is simply not workable. Not workable == nobody paying for my service == don't really care.<p>So I don't really see the point of this sort of app.