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Passion for Widsets

2 replies · 2,264 views · Started 02 March 2007

Widsets, java-hosted online widgets that bring you news or filtered web lookups, have a steadily growing following. They're also partly funded by Nokia, fully compatible with every Symbian OS smartphone in the last few years and the always excellent E-series blog has just published an eloquent Widsets write-up.

Read on in the full article.

The fact you originally had to manage Widsets from a PC, had always put me off trying it out ...but that changed a while back & you can now manage everything direct from the phone.

For me, Widsets killer (& much underrated) feature is that you can update all your widset feeds at home over wifi, then go offline & read them at your leisure all day long .- costing you nothing in network data charges.

Compared to some of the ugly 'offline' rss readers I've actually paid for (Headline) Widsets has a gorgeous GUI ...and it's free. Fantastic app.