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Help What Weather App Do You Use?

jamor

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Apr 13, 2010
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I currently am using the Stock weather app.

The reason I don't like it is because it is attached to a clock for a 90 year old.

Can you remove the clock widget and just have the weather, or is it an all-in-one?

I searched the market and I see the weather channel and the weather bug.

Anyone use these instead? I have used weather bug on my pc in the past and I found it was terrible - almost malware like - always stuck in the background sucking memory and looking ugly.

:)
 
Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.
 
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I currently am using the Stock weather app.

The reason I don't like it is because it is attached to a clock for a 90 year old.

Can you remove the clock widget and just have the weather, or is it an all-in-one?

I searched the market and I see the weather channel and the weather bug.

Anyone use these instead? I have used weather bug on my pc in the past and I found it was terrible - almost malware like - always stuck in the background sucking memory and looking ugly.

:)

find a clear section of a home screen, tap +, Widget, scroll down to HTC Weather widget.

There are 3 different sized weather widgets, a full page, a wide bar and a narrow bar.

It does location based as well as cities you manually enter :)
 
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I use the weather channel app. I was using the stock app but HTC needs to work on the location service as it never seems to be able to pick up my location when i'm not at home. The funny thing is that the weather channel app is spot on with reporting my location so it's not a problem with the phone or android. I'm gonna look into weather bug.
 
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Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.

What's the difference b/w Elite and Free beside the lack of adds? I just downloaded the free version and the widget tells you everything you need.
 
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Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.


Appreciate the tip - Awesome you can return it for complete refund too!

I'll be giving it a try.
 
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The Weather Channel - it has radar with google maps.

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Weather bug looks awesome indeed....but I just use weather channel on a "need to know" basis. For me I don't want a widget constantly updating and polling, but then I'm a battery life freak so maybe that is why :)

I look at the weather then close it. How often does the weather change on a minute to minute basis unless severe weather is on the rampage : )
 
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Weather bug looks awesome indeed....but I just use weather channel on a "need to know" basis. For me I don't want a widget constantly updating and polling, but then I'm a battery life freak so maybe that is why :)

I look at the weather then close it. How often does the weather change on a minute to minute basis unless severe weather is on the rampage : )

In the midwest it changes by the hour. Last week we had no rain in the forcast all week and then thursday and friday nights we had tornado watch's and warnings and severe thunderstorms. It was suppose to rain today as of the forecast 4 days ago and now its sunny without a cloud in the sky. Unless you have frequent updates you'll go on thinking everything is hunky dorey and get blasted when you are least expecting it. This time of year tornados are rampant and rain is frequent, normally we even have 30 mph winds for weeks at a time. So yeah unless you live in san diego where its 70-80 degrees and sunny year round you probably want frequent updates.
 
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In the midwest it changes by the hour. Last week we had no rain in the forcast all week and then thursday and friday nights we had tornado watch's and warnings and severe thunderstorms. It was suppose to rain today as of the forecast 4 days ago and now its sunny without a cloud in the sky. Unless you have frequent updates you'll go on thinking everything is hunky dorey and get blasted when you are least expecting it. This time of year tornados are rampant and rain is frequent, normally we even have 30 mph winds for weeks at a time. So yeah unless you live in san diego where its 70-80 degrees and sunny year round you probably want frequent updates.


Does weather bug draw from 3g or gps?
 
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