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ITN widget goes live

4 replies · 1,708 views · Started 21 July 2009

Ho yes. Every news network worth its salt has to have its share of iPhone and S60 widgets. ITN is the latest to join the throng, with its News widget now in the Ovi Store for all S60 3rd Edition and 5th Edition phones. It's free, of course, and has sections for 'Headlines', 'Sport', 'Business' and 'Fun'. Many of the stories have attached ITN videos, which pop up in fairly low res (176 by 144 pixels) 3GP format in RealPlayer. Some screenshots below.

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There's a Finnish television critic who wrote a long rant about how many "programmes" nowadays are actually just text message quiz games or infomercials. Real programmes, he claimed, are an endangered species.

Now this seems to be happening to phone software. How many "apps" are we seeing now which are merely internet feed interfaces?

Why not just do a website and let people bookmark it? Why should people have to install something just to browse a site's online content?

I downloaded it for N97. The news is all at least one week old.