As some others, I have used AvantGo for a number of years and though there have been some glitches it generally meets my need. I sync it at home before leaving for work and have enjoyed being able to keep up with the news even when I don't have FREE wireless access. It was nice to have the information downloaded to the PDA without having a connection.
AvantGo should've died years ago, when Pocket PC Phone Edition was released. I remember using AvantGo on my HP Jornada 420 back in 1999. Surprised they lasted this long...
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but for several years not, just about everyone has full time all-you-can-eat data plans.
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I used to cringe at this myth and now I just chuckle. People who live outside large cities where there is less competition between carriers, people who live in countries other than the US, etc. do not have any access to full time all you can use data plans.
It's time we nipped this myth in the bud.
Technically I have an unlimited data plan for my cell. It's unlimited up to 30 megs a month. Yes, megs. I pay a huge chunk of money for that plan, too.
Here's the problem with RSS readers though: you see the headline, maybe the short summary, you click on the link, and BOOM you're falling asleep as you wait for a desktop-formatted page loads. Not enough sites have mobile versions...
Give mDigger a try. I've been using it for about a year now as AvantGo problems kept driving me crazy. For a while I'd use both, for different content, but I get enough info through mDigger so that I rarely read my AvantGo cache anymore. They supposedly scrape and reformat real web pages, not just RSS feeds, so you get more info. And some feeds have a good complement of appropriately resized pictures. There has been very little activity on the web site so it might also go dark some day soon, but for now it is a good source of off-line info. Channel groups are handy - control which sites to download depending on connection speed/cost. The beta version is much spiffier but has some minor issues.
AvantGo was very useful for travelling, if you sync'ed just before leaving. First, it allowed you to read news and other content on the plane where you can't connect anyway. Second, although I have what Americans would call a "data plan"for 250 MB/month at my base in Switzerland, as soon as I leave that small country, I am exposed to exorbitantly high roaming charges for any data download. The same goes for most people in Europe who stray outside the country where they have their phone account. AvantGo was some use in countering this. I will miss it.
Indeed, the US-centric comments on Pocket PC Thoughts and so many other sites are irritating.
AvantGo was very useful for travelling, if you sync'ed just before leaving. First, it allowed you to read news and other content on the plane where you can't connect anyway.
mDigger works just like avantgo but without the limits. You should try it!
I am on unlimited adsl plan but do not use a smartphone, so syncing offline everynight is a habit for me.
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Indeed, the US-centric comments on Pocket PC Thoughts and so many other sites are irritating.
Over the years Pocket PC Thoughts has had editors from Canada, the USA, Sweden, Malaysia, The Netherlands, and a few other places. Right now most of our staff is from the USA and Canada, so there's an inherent bias that comes from that - we talk about what we know, just like if you go to a site like MoDaCo you'll see UK/European-centric comments.
If you're irritated by that, there's not a lot anyone can do about it - it's impossible to run a site that doesn't have some level of geographical bias. The onus is on you to chose how you're going to react to that.
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If you're irritated by that, there's not a lot anyone can do about it - it's impossible to run a site that doesn't have some level of geographical bias. The onus is on you to chose how you're going to react to that.
Sorry, I didn't mean to cause offence; to say that something is irritating is rather mild where I come from but I suppose that's not the case everywhere. But it was a day in which I encountered several sites (notably Microsoft's new Bing) which seem to assume that everyone lives in one large country. After that, the tone of some of the earlier posts saying that AvantGo's really quite useful service ought to have been long gone, was rather ... well.
Anyway I've uninstalled AvantGo, recovering quite a lot of device memory (it always had the defect of not installing the program or it's cache on the storage card). I'll look into mDigger.
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