RSS on mobile phones
Written by Richard MacManus / September 4, 2005 1:46 PM
/ 3 Comments
Barb Dybwad posed an interesting question this week: "how many of you read some or all of your RSS feeds on your cellphone? If you do - which application or service do you find the best/easiest to use/most comprehensive and why?"
Personally I don't read feeds in my mobile phone, although I would like to. I do download content from the Web onto my Palm PDA, for offline reading. So it makes sense to go the next step and read content online on my mobile device. Anyway Barb's readers recommended the following apps and services for mobile RSS reading, if you're interested:
- BuddyBuzz
- winksite.com
- LiteFeeds
- Bloglines mobile
- PHONifier
- iFeedYou
- FreeNews
1 TrackBacks
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2492
Comments
Subscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all ReadWriteWeb posts
I've used Bloglines, on the commute home, but the cost of data to mobile here in NZ is too much ($10/Mb for casual use). I just wait till I get home now.
FreeNews gives me the fastest news clippings at the least network cost but it doesn't let you clip to a web URL where you can revisit your clippings with a desktop browser. Still, if you want your news fast and don't mind paying an annual subscription for that fast service, it's a winner because of the way it quickly caches the newsfeeds on your phone. The magic makes the network charges nominal. I pay my network around $80 a month to read 65 frequently updated feeds while commuting. That's a big data addiction but it fits well in the context of otherwise wasted traveling time.
I would be a bad employee if I did not mention our own FeedBurner Mobile Feed Reader: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/mfr