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After “covering” the Java ME-enabled feature phone market, Paragon Software is bringing its popular Handy weather app to the BlackBerry users.
Some of the app features include:
- Intellicast’s weather database is used. Users can pick any location from a preset list of 40,000 cities from all over the world.
- Detailed weather forecasts include current temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit, real feel (Rf) temperature, wind direction and wind speed in mph, km/h or m/s, barometric pressure in Hg, mbar or mmHg, relative humidity in, etc.
- Support for automatic weather forecast updates at certain intervals (every two, four, eight, twelve or twenty-four hours), or at a time preset by the user.
- Three weather view modes: temperature graph for up to seven consecutive days, detailed weather forecast for each day, and current weather conditions (for most cities) for several locations of the user’s choice.
- Low data traffic footprint – traffic generated by a weather update is only 2.5 Kb per city forecast per download.
- Multilingual interface (English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish).
Handy Weather for BlackBerry is compatible with Blackberry devices 7***, 8***, Bold, Curve and Pearl series. The app costs $7.95 USD with a three-month subscription service, or $17.95 USD with a one-year subscription.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
