Newsgator launches mobile client for J2ME handsets

By Vivek | November 29th, 2006 at 01:17 am ET         

For sometime I thought that Newsgator team has put J2ME mobile phones on its ignore list. Apparently that is not the case. Yesterday Newsgator introduced Newsgator Go! for J2ME based phones. The mobile beta client is available for download at the Newsgator site and supports Blackberry, Palm, Sony Erricson, Nokia, Samsung, LG or any other java phone.

I installed the client on my Blackberry and was easily able to access feeds associated with my Newsgator ID. The mobile clients shows only the unread posts and syncs the post information with your Newsgator account after you read newer articles from your mobile. The mobile client provides most of the basic features required including marking all feed items read in a folder, viewing post in fullscreen mode, and modifying number of default settings like associated Newsgator account, cache, display and few more options. Amazing part is the speed at which you can read your feed posts. Even at the crawling speeds offered by Verizon, I was able to quickly view posts on my blackberry.

With the launch of this client, my planned upgrade to BlackBerry 8700 again seems like a better choice as compared to Windows mobile devices.  Keep up the excellent works guys.

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Newsgator Go! for J2ME