Press Release: Access Announce The NFB Widget Community Site!

Earlier in the year I took a Quick Look at the beta of the Netfront browser widget application, and whilst I was not thrilled with it, it did show potential. Well Access have announced the new community site for the Widgets. What’s new for potential users?

What’s New:

• New version of Widgets Player Click here
• Developers Page Click here
• Widget Content Development Tools Click here
• Widgets Creation & Upload Click here

There’s an updated player for windows mobile and a few more widgets available. Most notably, there are developer tools, allowing anyone to create new widgets if they want to. Open Access! Click the link below to go to the Press release and the site.

NetFront Browser Widgets

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Quick Look, NFB Widgets!

  What’s a Widget? Is it like a thing-a-me-bob?

widg·et (wjt)

n.

1. A small mechanical device or control; a gadget.

2. An unnamed or hypothetical manufactured article.

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[Perhaps alteration of gadget.]

When I posted about Access’s new addition to the Netfront family I didn’t think I’d be brought to my knees by a widget. We are all familiar with widgets with our desktop browsers, but the addition of dedicated widgets to a Windows Mobile browser seemed like a novelty. Well it’s not a novelty, and it’s not even funny. The base application installs on it’s own then you add widgets, like modules, to the base application. You can add weather, news, world time, whatever widgets are available now.

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Netfront Surprises…

If any of you have tried out the Netfront Browser from Access, you’ll know that they are at the fore front of mobile browser technology. So I’ve posted on the latest concept version more than once, but today there’s a new Beta that adds widgets to the Netfront Browser.

Most of us would be familiar with widgets with our desktop browser, and Access are introducing a mobile version that works with their mobile browser. Unexpected and surprising, but another step in the direction of adding desktop usability to the mobile environment.

A New Beta from access is delivering a limited range of widgets that you can add to the Netfront Mobile Browser.

This is a step in the right direction for handheld browsing, one of the things that most of us are looking for is more of a desktop experience on the handheld. Don’t hang around check this out  and see if you like it.

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