Weather Forecast on your Pocket Personal Computer

If your travel a lot and want to know what to put into your suitcase before you go to London, Moscow, or Beijing, then a little wonder called Spb Weather is all you need. Spb Weather is a Today plug-in for Windows Mobile PDA that will let you know when to take an umbrella or put on warm cloths that’s, of course, if you have the PDA at hand!

The real value of Spb Weather on PDA is its convenience. Instead of trying to get the weather forecast on the radio or TV, or surfing to a weather forecast site, you need to install Spb Weather onto your Windows Mobile PDA, and it’ll wirelessly deliver an up-to-the-moment worldwide weather report from a variety of weather sources and a full 7-day weather forecast. It’ll download up to 10 days ahead and that’s something other weather forecasters miss.

Spb Weather presents the weather forecast for a city as a clear horizontal graph with icons displaying sunny, cloudy, rainy or stormy conditions. Underneath there is a text box offering more detailed weather information. One day weather forecast can contain information on max and min temperatures, humidity, pressure, and wind speed and direction allocated by 4 periods of the day. The plug-in is skinnable and can look anything you want. Besides, it can be extensively customized to suite your personal tastes.

With Spb Weather, you’ll have control over various parameters, including frequency of updates, view modes, traffic statistics and even weather forecast data source. The weather information can be represented in one of four modes, including 7 days view, 5 days view, 4 days view and Multiline view. If a 4 day mode is selected, you can see four weather information entries for a selected city on the graph. The Multiline mode allows you to view five day forecasts for several different cities simultaneously. City entries are represented with separate graphs in this mode, rather than with tabs as in all other modes.

Weather information can be updated as frequently as you like. It can get updated every time your device is docked. Or, the weather forecast can be updated every time you add a new city to monitor in Spb Weather. You can specify an update behavior: this can be either a manual update (weather data will be downloaded only upon your request) or automatic update (in this case data will be downloaded after every specified time interval).

Setting Spb Weather to work is a breeze. You need to input which cities you want to monitor, and this can be done by typing in the city name, or its ZIP code. Custom names for cities can be specified too (Pete instead of Saint Petersburg). You are also prompted to select a weather source for the city. Once the city (or cities) is set, the program prompts you to specify preferable view, skin, units and decide whether you want to update the weather information manually or automatically, track hourly or daily weather data. That’s all! Ease of use and excellent usability earned Spb Weather place in top 10 most sold Windows Mobile programs

The program supports Spb Pocket Plus, so you can free up some resources and gain more space on the Today screen of your PDA as Spb Weather will run as a separate tab.

Spb Weather will help you get weather forecasts for virtually any city around the world and look up the local forecast too. At just $14.95, this nice plug-in for PDA represents excellent value to your eyes and looks to be a necessary purchase for any traveler. You can see it in action right now if you download its fully functional evaluation copy from www.handster.com. Enjoy accurate weather forecasts!

Spb Weather Features:
• Integration with Spb Mobile Shell
• Integration with Spb Diary
• Integration with Pocket Plus
• 4000+ cities;
• Optimized traffic (400 bytes for 5 day forecast);
• Easy customizable interface;
• Professional skins;
• Easy configuration from context menu;
• Custom weather source support;
• Custom city support.
• In Top 10 Windows Mobile Software

Compatible devices list
Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002
ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others
ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others
Cingular: 8125, 8525
Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others
Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc.
Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc.
HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others
HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena
IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others
O2: XDA series
T-Mobile: MDA series
QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090
Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices.

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Andrew Fadeev is IT specialist, heavily using Windows Mobile devices every day for five years