Widgets on Your Mobile??
by beck ~ September 15th, 2007. Filed under: hardware, mobile.Not everyone likes widgets but widget fans can now have desktop like widgets on their mobiles.
“Widsets” currently in beta, allows for you to have all sorts of widgets on your mobile from RSS news feeds to games, weather, stocks and shares.
Its free to use and download on your mobile, so give WIDSETS a try today. www.widsets.com
Just please be aware though, that some widgets require an active connection to update so please be careful with them if you pay your operator by the megabyte. If you have an unlimited data plan then do not worry.
September 16th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Thanks Beck, I have an unlimited data plan and have been looking for something like this! I wish there were an easier way to view them though. I want the feeds to appear on my phones “desktop” rather than have to actively load an application. Guess that’s just a restriction on the phones themselves, not much can be done about that. Shame though, because the application probably won’t get used as much if I have to make an effort to load it!
September 16th, 2007 at 10:04 am
HI James, if you have a windows mobile phone you could look at something like SPB Mobile Shell. This gives you a new interface with touchable icons and you can add icons to it, maybe you could add the widgets to it.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/?en
September 16th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I’m using the rather superb Nokia N73 which is a Symbian OS based phone, though I’d really like to upgrade to the N95 my contract still has 12 of its 18 months left to run. However, I can’t find fault with the N73 and my unlimited data plan has transformed my mobile phone use.
Photos are automatically uploaded to the web, contacts and diary entries are constantly synchronised with my Yahoo account so it’s all backed up and available on any PC. Slingbox means I can watch my Sky TV wherever I am on my phone. Orb gives me access to all my files and folders stored on my PC at home while I’m on the move including music and video. I have access to my POP3 e-mail all the time and get full web access using Opera and with TomTom and a Bluetooth GPS device I have sat-nav in my car.
I would never have imagined this possible just a few years ago, and I never cease to be amazed by what these devices are capable of. However, it somehow still doesn’t stop me wanting more!
September 16th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Glad you like the Nokia. As per my new thread regarding T-Mobile, I am soon to receive a new Nokia E61. Quite looking forward to it as I can then receive hopefully the new free Sky Anytime service.
What you say about not believing you can do all this on a mobile, I am always amazed by new technology too. I remember my first mobile, it was a Motorola phone like a brick and was simply a phone and nothing else, and that was only 10 years ago. Imagine what things will be like in another 10 years
September 16th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that, I can set my SkyHD box to record remotely via my phone too. The Sky Anytime service is pretty cool if you’ve gone out and forgotten to record something, but unless you are prepared to pay them more money that’s about all it’s good for. But still worth installing for that feature alone!
The problem I have now is all the text input becomes a real chore via the phones keypad, I think they need to address this problem. One solution I quite like the idea of is to integrate this technology into the phone itself:
http://www.powerupmobile.com/product-12-62.htm
Now if they could just combine that and give the N95 a touch screen interface I would be in heaven… but hang on, maybe they have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRXXxf053do
LOL! But it does go to show just how great it would be….
I see the E61 has a full QWERTY keyboard built in, but I’m not sure I could cope with the size. It has to be pocket sized for me, and still leave room to spare! The N73 is about as large as I think I could go without it feeling cumbersome. You see, although I still use all these amazing new features, for me a phone has to be a phone first and foremost. The E61 would appear to be a PDA with phone functionality built in, which just isn’t practical for me.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I am in luck with Sky Anytime, because we subscribe to full package minus movies, we get the full sky anytime service for free which includes the streaming.
The full keyboard on the E61 and the large screen is what I find attractive. I don’t like small phones and would rather a PDA-esque device - bigger the better, because I don’t really use a phone as a phone, I use it for the email and internet really and the occasional voice call or text. To me its an internet device which happens to make calls too
September 16th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
How does it work with the Sky Anytime then? We have everything, all Sky movies, sports, HD channels and Broadband… the lot! I can get Anytime services on my PC, but wasn’t aware mobile streaming was included? At the moment requests to watch Sky One returns “Operation Timed out” messages. In fact I’ve just looked on the Sky website which says this:
“If you have a 3G phone on either Vodafone, T-Mobile or Orange, for an extra £5 per month you could watch over 20 channels of TV on your mobile phone with Sky Mobile TV.”
So as I’m on 3 I guess it’s a non-starter, not that I’d be interested in paying £5pm anyway as I have a Slingbox hooked up to my Sky box. Though that box is only on a Freeview card at the moment, but I have been considering getting multi-room for full access.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Yeah I think I weas getting confused with the Anytime free package - which is remote record, EPG planner on mobile etc, with the sky by mobile which is the streaming.
Sorry to get your hopes up. I am sure I read it on the sky site somewhere though, I am going to investigate this.