As usual, once an idea is in the air, big names try to surf on it. Mobile widget make no exception, and Nokia juste revelead today his “Widset” initiative…. It’s one of the several on-going attempt to create mobile widgets, but it will be probably higly visible. As it’s one of my favorite topic, I will post an in-depth review of the application, as soon as I will be able to make it run on my handset (nobody is perfect), but after a quick look, it seem similar to what I’ve presented yesterday (plusmo), except that they have got an incredible look and feel, and a cool web site…Stay tuned for more info!
Update: The mention to Nokia came from this post, but it seems that there is no clear statment on the widset about parent company….
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June 8th, 2006
Pulsmo is
another start-up in the area of “mobile channel” (I prefer to use
this word instead of Mobile Widget, as my definition of mobile widget is more
restrictive).
Anyway, despite some real weaknesses in user interface, it’s a really
interesting app. basically, you can subscribe to some channels from the
application. Channels are typically RSS feed, and you can subscribe directly to
any existing feeds, or you can subscribe to these so called
“widgets”. In fact, the widgets are typically some small app interacting
with the server. They look like xml based app.
The application contains a kind of small html/xml displayer, that allows you to
browse for newer widget (in fact, the widget discovery is another widget).
The web server allows you also to configure your application.
In fact, it remind me Bluepulse, but in a much better and more visually appealing
way. The interaction between client and server seems to appear less frequently
than on Bluepulse,.
The main screen…
Browsing Engadget RSS feed…
The starbuck locator
Browsing a Picture Flickr feed….
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June 8th, 2006