Is there a smart-wake yet?

[treebeard]

Thank you @treebeard! I'll continue using my solution then, which just wakes the phone for 1 minute out of every 15 when in suspend mode. That should be a good balance between battery life and immediacy of notifications.

I should have read that old thread before responding - that's a nice bit of hackery.  I suspect it's possible to add timers & services to the modem's community firmware to periodically check for email etc and wake the phone accordingly.  That would stretch battery life further and could provide more immediacy but would certainly be a bit more work.  It seems like an interesting challenge.