When I add a new RSS feed using the web browser, the phone takes me to a list of all feeds that have been added to the phone. There I can add, remove, update and read feeds and change their automatic update setting. This RSS reader appears to be a part of the web browser (BrowserNG.exe) and while not perfect, it seems easy and simple and overall perfectly usable to me.
But if I exit this reader, I can't find a way to start it again by any other means than by adding another new feed from the web browser menu.
I know each feed can be added as a widget to the start screen, but the reader that launches by touching a widget is different (tffeedviewer_0x2000c4d1.exe). This one doesn't appear to have a way to choose the feed, meaning it can only update and read a single feed. I can't possibly add a separate start screen widget for all my feeds.
Did I miss something? I can't find an RSS reader from the menus or launcher widget app list and the user's manual isn't helpful. Even if the reader is a part of the web browser, there should be a way to start it separately. Automatic update rate setting really should be available via the widget too, now I need to add a new feed to change settings for existing feeds.
Other random notes:
- With http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot feed with the RSS widget, the reader automatically launches web browser each time I switch to the next news article by pressing left or right while reading an abstract. This is highly annoying. The RSS reader in BrowserNG does not do that, but instead it loads comments on the same page with the abstract, which is not good either. Maybe this is because both readers end up executing javascript (but web browser java setting doesn't affect this behavior, but I didn't expect it to either).
- In RSS reader of the web browser, the settings icon next to the feed list doesn't open options of the selected feed, but instead generic options for the web browser.
- There doesn't appear to be a setting for the number (or age) of stored messages. Some feeds only store 20 messages, some 100. I suppose this may match the number of headlines available on the server at the previous update, but for some feeds this is simply too few.
- Can the icons (update, next, prev, etc.) be customized? I'd like to add text to them.
- RSS widget reader wastes horizontal space from headline display for two icons (update feed, add new feed). Web browser RSS reader doesn't. I prefer the latter.
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