Yahoo has launched a new weather app for Android which provides forecasts-at-a-glance, current weather conditions, and weather-related photos from Flickr. The photos are a nice touch which gives the app an attractive, ever-changing look that sets it apart from other weather apps. The home screen shows current conditions and a brief forecast in portrait mode — and when you tilt your phone to landscape you… Read more »

BlackBerry app developer Bellshare is working on its first Android app. It’s called BeWeather and it’s an attractive, customizable weather application. BeWeather offers a series of home screen widgets that you can use to see the current temperature at a glance or get a full 5-day forecast. Widgets are available in sizes ranging from 1×1 to 4×3. When you fire up the full app, the… Read more »

There are plenty of home screen widgets for Google Android that will show you weather forecasts for the next few days at a glance. But few will give you detailed forecasts for the next 24 hours. Aix Weather Widget does just that. The free widget shows a graph on your home screen with the estimated temperatures for the next 24 hours. You can also see… Read more »

Any weather app for Android worth its salt includes a home screen widget that can let you see the current temperature and other conditions without launching the full app. But Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch don’t support widgets, so most iOS weather apps just show you a cute picture of a sun and you have to actually load the app to see anything else…. Read more »

Beautiful Widgets is a popular Android suite of widgets which let you dress up your phone’s home screen with customizable clock and weather widgets. Tapping on a widget also brings up a forecast view with attractive animations. So far Beautiful Widgets has only really been optimized for smartphones, but the developer has released a public beta of a new version which supports the Motorola XOOM… Read more »

MIUI Developers have released a free weather app for Android. It’s still just a beta, but it’s already one of the best looking weather apps I’ve seen with attractive high resolution graphics for full screen views and home screen widgets. The app also has a few unusual features such as the ability to share your weather info with friends. Unfortunately, the app is fairly large… Read more »

When you search for “weather” on Google using a mobile browser, you’ll now get a nifty new local forecast as the top of your search results. By default, the web app will grab your current location, but you can also choose other locations from a drop-down box. In addition to showing you today’s weather as well as forecasts for the rest of the week, there’s… Read more »

Scanner Radio is an Android app that lets you listen to live police radio, fire radio, and weather radio as well as amateur radio streams from around the world. There are over 2,000 channels available. The app grabs the internet streams for these police scanners and other radio channels, so there may be a slight delay. But you can click the “Scanners near me” button… Read more »

The developer of Fancy Widget earned a bit of fame a while back by launching a Home Screen widget for Google Android that looked almost exactly like the default time and weather widget from HTC Sense. Unfortunately (and predictably) he was asked to stop offering that app, which he did. Now he’s back with a new app, also called Fancy Widget. It offers the same… Read more »

Fancy Widget is a home screen widget for Google Android that pretty much duplicates the time and weather widget that ships with HTC Sense UI. So it probably shouldn’t come as any surprise that HTC has complained to the developer. In response, Fancy Widget 1.2.2 will be the last version of the widget that looks like the HTC Sense widget. It’s still available in the… Read more »