The Weather Channel has big plans in the mobile market apparently. For example, outside this writer’s door it’s been raining buckets all night and day, and he’s wondering when its going to stop, if ever. This app would sure come in handy right about now.
The Weather Channel has announced and released a dedicated Android application, one of the first big providers to do so after the G1’s release a week or two ago. Available through the Android Marketplace, the new app gives users the ability to view full weather maps with customization, detailed forecasts (and current conditions), local video of freak stuff going on and weather alerts for the big time storms and heat waves you need to know about. Weather information can be viewed for a specific area or neighborhood to keep your family picnic from being rained out.
The app includes maps that are fully customizable and uses the power of Google Maps. Users can decide to display specific layers just like the weathermen do, such as the fancy “radar”, clouds, rainfall and snowfall and other related stuff.
Sounds cool to us, and it really points up the power of Android as an OS. This one may herald the opening of the floodgates (no pun intended) for even more powerful apps to appear for Android.
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Bert 11.15.08 at 8:58 pm
How do I remove this ‘Weather Channel App” from my G1? I have installed it, and like the other programs in the list at Market, it does not show ‘installed’…it only shows ‘Free’. By selecting another application that says ‘installed’ you can actually uninstall it. Not the Weather Channel App.
Please advice and fix.
Thanks
Bert
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