Use of Raw Notifications in WP7

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I read the implementation of three types of notifications possible in WP7 app - Tile, Toast and Raw Notifications. I understand the use of Tile and Toast Notifications but I fail to understand how a Raw notification will be used in real world application. Can someone please help me understand.

If someone can help me understand the implementation wrt. an existing application like KIK messenger or WhatsApp Messenger, it will be great!

Regards, Bhavik.

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windows-phone-7

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Raw notifications provides the ability for your application service to push data to the application while it is in the foreground without the need for your application to poll the appplication service.

For instance, meaning if you have the Messages application open, and you get a new Message, it'll show a notification (toast), without the Messages application having to poll for it.