iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., announced the general availability of RSS features for its popular AvantGo mobile Internet service. With AvantGo for RSS, users can add any RSS feed to their account, without installing additional software, and then synchronize using a wireless or desktop Internet connection to receive the feed items in a format optimized for their device.
This release expands the content available through AvantGo, allowing users to:
- Easily sync and view new RSS items/articles,
- Save up to five RSS items per AvantGo RSS channel,
- Share photos (users of photo sharing sites that offer photo feeds can use AvantGo as their mobile photo album),
- Personalize RSS channels to optimize feed subscriptions,
- Quickly subscribe to RSS channels with AvantGo’s AutoChannel bookmarklet for RSS, and
- Promote their own Web site or blog RSS feeds by creating a button that enables users to quickly add their site to AvantGo.
New AvantGo for RSS service is immediately available for AvantGo 5.7 or above users. It supports RSS versions 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0 and Atom syndication formats. Supported Symbian platforms include Symbian OS UIQ and Symbian OS v6.1 Series 60. I hope it will work with the current S60 platform as well.