Just released in the Nokia 5800's Download-Widgets folder is the free WeatherBug, offering worldwide weather status, forecasts and radar animations, all (optionally) keyed to your GPS location. As the folder suggests, it's implemented as a (Web Runtime) widget, in similar fashion to AccuWeather, released last month in the same folder. How many more ways do we need to find out what the weather's going to be like tomorrow? Screenshots below.
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How about instead of complaining about weather apps, you compare this one to the other one. Just a thought.
Complaining? Did you get out of bed on the wrong side today?
What's the point in comparing two FREE apps? The point of reviews is generally to talk about applications or hardware which costs money, to let people know which is better without having to dip into their pockets. In this case, everyone can grab both and make up their own minds......
I think he has a point Steve.
Can you please test them both and let us know which is better at predicting the weather 😊
Zuber
Hehe...poor Steve.
I guess you should leave the snide remarks out next time, in fear of attracting people who like spoon fed info instead of testing stuff out themselves.
slitchfield wrote:What's the point in comparing two FREE apps? The point of reviews is generally to talk about applications or hardware which costs money, to let people know which is better without having to dip into their pockets. In this case, everyone can grab both and make up their own minds......
Come on Steve....this is going a bit too far. Of course you should compare free apps. It's not all about money you know. There are perfectly valid comparisons for free apps. Off the top of my head - Opera vs Nokia Web; Nokia Messaging vs Gmail; Nokia Maps vs Google Maps; any of the various YouTube 'solutions'; WeFi, DeviceScape, SmartConnect. The list is endless and I for one would be interested in which of these make my life easier.
Of course, a lot of them can save the user money too. Opera can save costly bandwidth compared to Web; same for Nokia Maps vs Google Maps, and some of the wifi solutions are specifically designed to make it easy(er) to use free (or cheaper) and faster wifi instead of costlier (and slower) cell networks.
I hope you don't really think we're only interested in stuff that costs money......I don't think I've bought an S60 app in my life (yet).
Sure, we can try them all out ourselves, but I hope you consider it part of your job to help in the discovery at least....[edit: to be fair, that is exactly what you do, but I meant more about helping in the discovery of the differences]
The differences are Accu weather has a bigger screen and easy to read the text, and the weather bugs has a correct map when you search the location than Accu weather, but both of them have a difference weather forecast.....
vnk5800 wrote:The differences are Accu weather has a bigger screen and easy to read the text, and the weather bugs has a correct map when you search the location than Accu weather, but both of them have a difference weather forecast.....
Yes, I've noticed that too - The Accuweather ting in Widsets is, er, not so accurate. I prefer the one in Worldmate's Weather Center(sic).
Yeah, I know - there's not much AAS can do to judge the accuracy of weather forecasts at the various places we each happen to be in 😉
Yeah, I know - there's not much AAS can do to judge the accuracy of weather forecasts at the various places we each happen to be in
This is the general problem with reviewing weather apps: no matter how good the interface might be, if the data is wrong then the app is totally useless.
Mapping applications are almost as bad, because the mapping data can vary greatly from one place to another. The same mapping program may do some regions really well but others really badly, and a reviewer is unlikely to have the resources to get a representative sample of data quality.
Weatherbug v2.0.4 has gone from Download! and is not yet in Ovi Store but here is a direct download link.
http://direct.weatherbug.com/Download/WeatherBug_Nokia5800_v_2_0_4.wgz
http://is.gd/JeOt