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.