FreeNews is a Winner

Over the past several months I have been playing around with mobile RSS readers. These include Newsgator Mobile Edition, Bloglines Mobile and My Yahoo! Mobile. While any of these online tools are very adequate for reading feeds on the go, I found them lacking in a few areas. On the upside, by using Newsgator or Bloglines you will only read a feed once now matter which device you're using. I particularly like how Newsgator allows you to specify which feeds you want to read where. I set up a handful for my mobile device and read the rest on Newsgator Online. All three of these services, however, are all hampered by same problem - the speed of the browser/wireless network. What's worse, in Yahoo!'s case they don't link to the full post so - at least for right now - their mobile RSS reader is very limiting. The market is ripe for a killer feed reader that does not rely on HTML/WAP. Thankfully, FreeNews RSS reader (which actually is not free, but well worth the $20/yr.) is an absolute winner. It runs on virtually any phone that supports Java - including the Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Palm platforms. You can find the full feature set a seven-day trial program. Links: Bloglines Mobile Reader Comments... Senior Vice President with Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.