Mobile & Wireless Roundup - Innovation & Industry News

I came across WidSets today and I immediately thought yet another mobile widget workspace allowing RSS feeds to be delivered to the mobile. However, I thought i’d give it a shot, and experiment with the new service.

After selecting my initial widgets I wanted on my mobile, I signed up and a link was sent to my device to download the Java Client pre-setup with my user details and widgets selected.

After allowing the client access to the internet, I was presented with all the widgets i had selected, and the option to download more from the client itself.

The navigation is intuitive, and works using a smooth horizontal scroll which can be accellerated through progressing to new content items. Its all very AJAX style. Opening up the widgets to view the content, is an impressive popup style interface, with all content pre-loaded so no waiting.

The accompanying website allows the user to create their own widgets using an online interface, and make them public to the rest of the community. Heres mine:

The website also shows you how much data you have used on your mobile phone using the service.

I feel that this service should be watched, as it provides a very attractive user interface for devices that do not support AJAX through their browser.

I’ve stumbled upon a great web application called WebWag

It allows users to define a customised desktop using their Web Browser (AJAX based of course ;o) ). The use then send the application to ther mobile device. This application is a Java based client that mimics the desktop you have defined. Whenever you make a change, be it on the mobile, or on the web, they are both syncronised.
The interesting feature about this tool, is that it allows you to define many RSS feeds and Email accounts that you wish to have access to. The speed of the RSS reader is very quick, allowing posts to be viewed instantly. You can also have a Flickr widget to display yours, or someone elses flickr photos.

More widgets to come hopefully!