NewsBreak RSS Feed Reader and Podcasts on PocketPCs
If you're looking to read feeds on a PocketPC or SmartPhone and listen to podcasts, there's a number of choices. NewsBreak 2.0 just came out, and this site's feed looks pretty decent on it.
While this blog renders pretty nicely on a PocketPC due to DasBlog's mobile support, the site isn't very bandwidth friendly, nor, of course, is it available offline.
The screenshot on the left is the site in PocketIE, and the screenshot next to it (and the one at far right) is my blog's Feed in NewsBreak. Notice that NewsBreak uses ClearType in its reading view - not sure why that's not working in PocketIE or in NewsBreak's view showing list of posts.
It also supports podcasts, which is pretty sweet. I'm still evaluating options, but seems to be that $8 for a piece of software is pretty cheap. It supports PocketPCs and SmartPhones.
For now, NewsBreak is US$7.95 until it's not, then it'll be $19.95. Check it out.
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Ebbe
Thanks to you too Ebbe for your kind words about ListPro. And you're right, you can find out about NewsBreak directly on our site at www.iliumsoft.com/newsbreak.
Ken Morse
Ilium Software
Once I get my bluetooth support syncing this update that would eliminate the cost, for the phone at least. What do you know about syncing this sort of RSS data to a phone via bluetooth?
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Pocket PC Central has updated the page you link to (http://pocketpccentral.net/software/podcast.htm) so it no longer contains an entry for Newsbreak. And why didn't you just link to the makers of Newsbreak, Iliumsoft (http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm). They also make the excellent Listpro app that is rapidly becoming essential on my PDA.
Ebbe