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August 08, 2003

as I wrote in previous posts the landscape for RSS on P800 does look like there's something available...

well - test results are frustrating


  • Friday does only support Syndic8 and does not even seem to connect... found no source...
  • mReaderdoes import OPML and connects *sometimes* for download (without progress logs) and then nothing - no reading worked
  • PeekAndPick at least brought me to the posts to mark for emailing, but then the email-function was broke... oh well...
  • special test for blog-posting not RSS reading Azure returns unspecific errors (general exceptions because of general exception catchers :-( what I saw from the code I started to play around) but I at least could make a connect *sometimes*

all of these apps are Java / J2ME 1.04 and free/open source (although not all open)... I did not try the commercial tip because of it's obvious limitations... I also stepped back from the original requirement of offline-browsing and tried to have RSS reading "at least" online

well - overall the usability is without doubt critical and not-usable for my day-to-day use... Eclipse is warmed up and fit with WTK104 and I wonder if there will be chance to make 1 good from 3 bad versions...

update 13:24

Mark Allanson, creator of mReader replied to my inquiries and took my offer to support him, since he is only testing with Nokia 7210... good development - let's see what comes out... the source will also be put up at SourceForge or so.



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