Comments on: Newsgator Mobile beta – a review

By: jkOnTheRun: mobile tech

jkOnTheRun: mobile tech — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:03:54 +0000

[...] months back, NewsGator bought SmartRead and to eventually add this mobile RSS reader into the fold. Josh Bancroft already downloaded it and has a few screenshots posted on [...]

By: Newsgator Beta for Windows Mobile on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Newsgator Beta for Windows Mobile on Flickr - Photo Sharing! — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:11:35 +0000

[...] Newsgator Beta for Windows Mobile To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. F.decorate(_ge(‘button_bar’), F._photo_button_bar).bar_go_go_go(163283696, 0); F.decorate(_ge(‘photo_notes’), F._photo_notes).notes_go_go_go(163283696, ‘http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/163283696_591498b9f9_t.jpg’, ‘3.1444′); See my review of NewsGator Mobile on TinyScreenfuls.com. [...]

By: Kevin Cawley

Kevin Cawley — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:10:45 +0000

Josh,

You bring up another great point about running across a feed you want to subscribe to and currently not being able to… that is in the roadmap btw. In the interim you can clip a post and then when you get back to your desktop, you can subscribe. It is not ideal, but it would work for now until this feature is added.

-kevin

By: Kevin Cawley

Kevin Cawley — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:00:01 +0000

Hey Josh,

Thanks for your input and trust me it wasn’t taken personally. You make some great points. The reason I removed the links was because when the user started to navigate links, the browser component started to cache the history causing major memory pressure and ultimately resulting in the application being forced to hibernate. I am working on ways to get that functionality back into the reader and that is now a priority (see, you are making a difference and we appreciate that)!

And you are spot on that this reader is geared toward existing NewsGator users. We made a decision early on that a mobile news reader was most effective as an extension to your desktop/web RSS experience and maintaining state was critical.

If you ever do decide to switch over to NewsGator, I think you would find the sync’ing very cool

Josh, thanks for taking the time to take a look and thanks for being honest w/ your feedback. That is the only way we can make the product better.

-kevin

By: jkOnTheRun

jkOnTheRun — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve been waiting a few months for this and boy, this looks like it was worth the wait! About three months back, NewsGator bought SmartRead and to eventually add this mobile RSS reader into the fold.Josh Bancroft already downloaded it and has a few screenshots posted on Flickr. I can’t look at this right now (we’re recording MobileTechRoundup and I can’t multitask TOO much), but hey, maybe you’ve got time and could check it out.