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[PaulOBrien]

It's 'Free App Friday' again over at Handango... and this week Handango are offering a free copy of Fizz Weather for Smartphone (worth $16.95)!

The applicatuon is detailed here at the Fizz Software page, an excerpt of which i've included below.

It's a great app, it's free... what are you waiting for!

P

(cheers Mark for the tip!)

Fizz said:

Fizz Weather is a fully featured application & home screen plug-in. Supporting over 58,000 cities world wide we have one of the best, most comprehensive weather reporting tools for your mobile device.

Supporting Window Mobile 2003SE, & Windows Mobile 5 & Windows Mobile 6.

Main Features include...      

* Localized : English, French, German, Spanish, Italian & Dutch
* Windows Mobile 5 & 6 Compatible, Square Screen Support, Landscape/Portrait Support
* Global Coverage - Over 58,000 cities worldwide
* 7 day full forecasts, 2 day forecasts, 6 hourly intervals, Current location conditions.
* Weather maps with zoom & pan support
* Ski Reports from popular global resorts & Airport delays
* Weather warnings and alerts for the US
* Customizable interface with amazing new graphics and skins
* Full VGA support for compatible devices including support for TrueVGA
* Full control of downloads, update your weather whenever and however you want
* Active Sync Synchronization
* Download forecasts on the move
* Graphical display to allow you to track your downloads
* Customizable home-screen support
* Animated satellite maps - short, medium & long range.
* Current conditions now displayed on your home-screen/today plugin.
* Updated QVGA Smartphone home-screen layout for Motorola Q
* Auto-rotate option for home-screen/today plugin to cycle cities automatically
* No Subscriptions - Pay once, that's it !  

New In Fizz Weather 2.4 - Free update for all registered customers.

    * Support for radar map ( US & Canada only ) on map screen
    * New map interface
      - action key to zoom
      - dpad or click and drag (PPC) to pan
      - "*" key cycles maps including radar if available
      - larger full screen maps on zoom
      - rotation of maps on non-landscape devices to make most of display space
    * Better screen layouts for square screen & landscape screens
    * Better temperature scale on Today weather screen
    * If a weather alert has been downloaded this is reported on home-screens.
    * Current conditions home-screen layout now remembers which reporting weather station where a location supports multiple
    * New home-screen layout file - just one home-screen with option to set on startup
    * Updated daylight saving table for new 2007 DST dates in US, Canada & Australia
    * Various other small fixes

[furby]

Is the Handango site down? Maybe it's just updating

[nickcornaglia]

Hey a good one! I have FizzTraveller....but more than I need in the app. Plus this has weather maps, etc. Excellent!

[PaulOBrien]

Site works for me!

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