Mobidgets vs. WidSets
We seem to have a new S60 widget thing in town: Mobidgets, currently looking for alpha testers at http://mobidgets.com/.
Mobidgets is a widgets engine for mobile phone. I will not describe all the features here, first because they are not yet frozen, but also to keep some excitement. I will do it in a later post. But Mobidgets is looking for alpha testers, people who are interested in creating widgets for mobile phones. So, to join the program, we prefer you to be a developer but there’s no need to be an expert! The only constraint is to have a Symbian S60 device 2nd Ed FP2 or FP3.
I really like the sound (and look) of this… mobidget (mobile widgets) for S60 2nd ED devices. Still in closed alpha but hopefully coming to my pocket soon.
Mobidgets seems to be S60 specific, while WidSets works also in many Java enabled phones. Anyway, I guess it will be interesting to compare these two in the near future.
Hi Tommi, thanks for your comments.
Just wanted to let you know that a midp version will be released along with the Symbian one. Our alpha, however is currently more advanced on S60.
Florent.
Hi Florent - nice to hear! As you know, building a healthy widget ecosystem requires a certain installed base of compatible devices. S60 installed base might be large enough, but of course it doesn’t hurt to have wider compatibility.