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Best Clock and Weather Widget

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I wish Beautiful Widgets and Weather Widget Donate would get together and make the ultimate set. I don't have my Droid yet, but from what I've read that both seem to have holes that the other fills nicely.

Weather Widget is skinnable and has tons of cool skins to try out and has some slick animations once you click on the weather icon. But it has some issues with updating properly-GPS always on trying to find your location, problems with sunrise/sundown icon delays, weather only updates manually. Beautiful Widgets has only the one type of clock and doesn't have quite the bells and whistles, but seems to have perfect functionality.
 
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Now that I've got my Droid and have tried both of the programs, it's even more frustrating! :D

Beautiful Widget is well, beautiful. It has high-res graphics which look great on the Droid. But no animations.

Weather Widget uses lower-res graphics, but has slick animations and a cool feature which connects you to the weather app of your choice after clicking on the three day forecast to get more detailed info. But it seems to have a few more update bugs and that clunkier day/night graphic update system.

They really could have a perfect app if they joined forces. But I think I give the edge to Beautiful Widget for the polished look. If Weather Widget updated their graphics and improved the functionality, it'd be the winner.
 
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I use 'retro clock' and 'retro date' widgets on the top of my main homescreen. Tapping the date links you straight to the calendar and tapping the clock links you to your alarms. Both are very nice and are the flip style like the old alarm clocks back in the day.

For weather, I use the Weather Channel widget, which displays the temp and weather on the home screen, and if you set a place for home, puts the temp in the notification bar. Very useful app and has a lot of information as far as same day, 36 hr, and 10 day weather reports, plus can handle multiple locations.
 
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This thread is almost 2 weeks old, and was dug up for I don't know what reason.

A week ago, Beautiful widgets didn't have animations. A recent update enabled them.

I was very satisfied with it before, and now it is even better!

Highly recommend it.

Um..kind of rude. On what planet is 2 weeks old considered too old to comment?

Staying on topic, I use Weather Widget Donate btw.
 
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Um..kind of rude. On what planet is 2 weeks old considered too old to comment?

Calm down fellas. The reason I stated the age of the thread is because some of the older posts now contain misinformation, such as the one quoted earlier about how Beautiful Widgets do not have animations.

I just wanted to point out that if you're going to dig up an old thread, make sure you notice that it's old and things could have changed since.

cause someone wanted to give beautiful widgets some props :)

Absolutely. It sure deserves it.
 
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I tried a number of weather and clock widgets.

Tried Weather Widget...it was OK but kept losing location and prompting me to re-enter. Perhaps it was a glitch in the free version but it made me not want to try the paid version.
Weather Channel's widget was nice but didn't like the blue background. If they had offered custom background colors I may have stuck with it. Weatherbug was the same for me as weather channel. I think the weatherbug app is also very good.

Finally I shelled out the $1 for Beautiful Home and I love it. It was the 1st app I paid for and it was well worth it. I didn't like having separate clock/weather and this combo is awesome. I still have the weather channel App on my desktop for forecasts/conditions in multiple cities.
 
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