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Displaying weather information was one of the oldest usage scenarios for smartphones. Since the humble beginnings, these programs have evolved significantly…some even go as far as to offer animated 3D globes.
All of this is nice and dandy when you are in a club – but when it comes to a panel for the today screen, lean is king. Can HandyWeather stack up?
Starting HandyWeather for the first time pushes you through an introduction wizard, which helps you set up the basics:
Picking a city works well, but is slow due to the annoying animations:
Once the wizard is gone, you find yourself confronted with the following screen:
Tapping around on icons and the menu then lets you access a variety of other options including a detailed 24h “weather radar view”:
The real reason most users install a program like HandyWeather is its today plug-in. HandyWeather’s plugin is lean, and can be customized comfortably to take up comparatively little space:
As for customization, the product generally goes a long way – you can modify everything except for the highly annoying animated transitions:
Unfortunately, Paragon had to add an extra craplet to the launcher:
This review looked at version 4.00 of HandyWeather on an XPERIA X1 running its stock version of Windows Mobile 6.1. The program needs about 3800KB of memory and can be installed into RAM or onto an external memory card.
Turn it around and around, but HandyWeather always remains about 2MB less fat than its competitors. Of course, it also is less flashy – but is very close to an ideal no-frills weather software. If Paragon would allow users to disable the flashy animations, eliminate the annoying icon and would clear up the GUI a bit, we had a clear winner here. As it stands now, the price of 17$ is insane…
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