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Old 11-16-2008, 09:44 PM   #1
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My previous phone the Wing, i had the weather on the home screen.

Is there a widget or an app that displays weather on the desktop similar to the Wing?
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Old 11-17-2008, 05:44 AM   #2
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There a re a couple realy nice weather applications available for free from the Android Market, but i haven't used them enough to know whether it's possible to overlay them on the home screen.

I would imagine it might be an option in a future version.
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Old 11-21-2008, 11:59 PM   #3
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I've installed all of the weather apps to check them out (Bit of a weather nut). The best ones to me are

The Weather Channel:

- Nice interface
- Cool Video feature
- Quality maps with a lot of features (although a little slow)
- Ability to save multiple locations

iMap Weather

- Ability to save multiple locations
- A little slow to update but a really great storm map and you can animate it

Weather bug

- Good interface
- Cool live picture from the location feature
- OK maps

None yet have the ability to put a widget on the desktop but that seems to be a current limitation of the OS. Only the default widgets seem to be available like the clock, search etc.
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Old 12-06-2008, 04:57 PM   #4
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None yet have the ability to put a widget on the desktop but that seems to be a current limitation of the OS. Only the default widgets seem to be available like the clock, search etc.
not true. I found this by error. if you hold down the icon from your program menu and drag it the side, till you land onto your main screen and drop the icon. this also works for moving it around on the screen.
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Old 12-19-2008, 10:46 AM   #5
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not true. I found this by error. if you hold down the icon from your program menu and drag it the side, till you land onto your main screen and drop the icon. this also works for moving it around on the screen.
I believe the OP is looking for screenlet style weather embedded into the desktop not just sticking an icon on the desktop.
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you cant put a weather widget on the desktop yet, but there is a new update for early next year thats gonna practically revamp the UI, so that may be a possibility. the new update features video capture and other new features.
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