Free App Friday: Fizz Weather
Posted by Fred on December 21, 2007
Today’s free application at Handango is Fizz Weather for Smartphone. This is a $16.95 value for, well, free. Features include 7 day full forecasts, 2 day forecasts, 6 hourly intervals, and current conditions for 58,000 cities worldwide. You can also get weather maps that you can zoom and pan, ski reports, airport delays and weather alerts (US only). You can access all this information from your home screen or via an application. I used Fizz Traveller on my Blackjack and found it useful - Fizz Weather provides more weather information, while Traveller provides basic weather info (forecasts only - no current conditions) plus alarms, currency conversion, to-do lists, etc.
The one downside I ran into with Traveller was that there were lots of times that weather information for a location was unavailable. This is undoubtedly a problem with Fizz’s upstream weather data provider, CustomWeather. In all, it’s a nice piece of software, and a good alternative to paying AT&T a monthly fee for MyCast Weather, which comes installed in the Applications folder by default. I have a religious objection to paying AT&T for the services they try to push, and this includes MyCast ($3.99/month), TeleNav ($9.99/month) and XM Radio Mobile ($8.99/month). You can get most of the same functionality for free by using Fizz Weather, Windows Live Search or Google Maps, and XStreamXM Mobile.
