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Help What Weather App Do You Use?

jamor

jamor

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I currently am using the Stock weather app.

The reason I don't like it is because it is attached to a clock for a 90 year old.

Can you remove the clock widget and just have the weather, or is it an all-in-one?

I searched the market and I see the weather channel and the weather bug.

Anyone use these instead? I have used weather bug on my pc in the past and I found it was terrible - almost malware like - always stuck in the background sucking memory and looking ugly.

:)
 
Weatherbug elite for forecast, radar and home widget. Hands down the best weather app available and is much better than the iphone version.

Weatherbug on the pc is useless, but on the android its top notch.
 
jwm2 said:
Weatherbug elite for forecast, radar and home widget. Hands down the best weather app available and is much better than the iphone version.

Weatherbug on the pc is useless, but on the android its top notch.
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I'll give it a try - good to hear it's not like the PC weatherbug which is definitely useless and annoying!
 
Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.
 
I also use Weatherbug, but the free version. What do I get with the elite?

Does anyone know if there is a weather widget that you can toggle on screen through cities instead of having to go into the full program?
 
I use weatherbug elite and as stated its great use the map and elite widgets on home screen. heres a link to what the elite version does elite
 
jamor said:
I currently am using the Stock weather app.

The reason I don't like it is because it is attached to a clock for a 90 year old.

Can you remove the clock widget and just have the weather, or is it an all-in-one?

I searched the market and I see the weather channel and the weather bug.

Anyone use these instead? I have used weather bug on my pc in the past and I found it was terrible - almost malware like - always stuck in the background sucking memory and looking ugly.

:)
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find a clear section of a home screen, tap +, Widget, scroll down to HTC Weather widget.

There are 3 different sized weather widgets, a full page, a wide bar and a narrow bar.

It does location based as well as cities you manually enter :)
 
I use the weather channel app. I was using the stock app but HTC needs to work on the location service as it never seems to be able to pick up my location when i'm not at home. The funny thing is that the weather channel app is spot on with reporting my location so it's not a problem with the phone or android. I'm gonna look into weather bug.
 
The widget i use is the weatherbug elite one, it takes up 4 x 1 which is one row of icons and frees up a row for me to put other icons on the main home page. So i have the weatherbug elite widget at the top and 3 rows of icons below it.
 
jwm2 said:
Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.
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What's the difference b/w Elite and Free beside the lack of adds? I just downloaded the free version and the widget tells you everything you need.
 
jwm2 said:
Get the elite version and use the widget to replace the stock weather widget. Thats what i do and i love it. I can't live without it. Its well worth the $1-2, and if you don't like it you can always get a refund and go back to the free version. But i'm 100% positive you'll love it and will wonder why anyone would ever use anything else. In fact while i was without an android phone for 10 days i was so clueless about the weather i bought the ipod touch version and it wasn't nearly as good. If this is the future of android apps vs iphone/ipod touch, apple has no chance of keeping its marketshare.
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Appreciate the tip - Awesome you can return it for complete refund too!

I'll be giving it a try.
 
pixel816 said:
The Weather Channel - it has radar with google maps.
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+1

Weather bug looks awesome indeed....but I just use weather channel on a "need to know" basis. For me I don't want a widget constantly updating and polling, but then I'm a battery life freak so maybe that is why :)

I look at the weather then close it. How often does the weather change on a minute to minute basis unless severe weather is on the rampage : )
 
jamor said:
So do these widgets need GPS on or do they do just fine without?
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They'll get your location within 1500 or less meters(enough to get the town) just by cell tower triangulation.

I leave GPS location based services off unless i need them and i get town weather just fine.
 
jbdan said:
+1

Weather bug looks awesome indeed....but I just use weather channel on a "need to know" basis. For me I don't want a widget constantly updating and polling, but then I'm a battery life freak so maybe that is why :)

I look at the weather then close it. How often does the weather change on a minute to minute basis unless severe weather is on the rampage : )
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In the midwest it changes by the hour. Last week we had no rain in the forcast all week and then thursday and friday nights we had tornado watch's and warnings and severe thunderstorms. It was suppose to rain today as of the forecast 4 days ago and now its sunny without a cloud in the sky. Unless you have frequent updates you'll go on thinking everything is hunky dorey and get blasted when you are least expecting it. This time of year tornados are rampant and rain is frequent, normally we even have 30 mph winds for weeks at a time. So yeah unless you live in san diego where its 70-80 degrees and sunny year round you probably want frequent updates.
 
Interesting, I'd prefer not having to keep GPS on - I don't think I need it for anything except google maps/directions in which I would just toggle it on for that instance..
 
jwm2 said:
In the midwest it changes by the hour. Last week we had no rain in the forcast all week and then thursday and friday nights we had tornado watch's and warnings and severe thunderstorms. It was suppose to rain today as of the forecast 4 days ago and now its sunny without a cloud in the sky. Unless you have frequent updates you'll go on thinking everything is hunky dorey and get blasted when you are least expecting it. This time of year tornados are rampant and rain is frequent, normally we even have 30 mph winds for weeks at a time. So yeah unless you live in san diego where its 70-80 degrees and sunny year round you probably want frequent updates.
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Does weather bug draw from 3g or gps?
 
3g, i don't use gps with it. I'm sure you could if you wanted to, but its not needed.
 
Weatherbug:

"My Location" allows GPS tracking to provide precise weather conditions for your location.

I'm just wondering if it still works if you just want to pick a city and draw from 3g.

I realize you can use GPS for more precise weather.
 
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