Remember MSN Direct and those funny SPOT wristwatch PDAs Microsoft were trying to flog a few years ago?
No? Well, to be honest they’d slipped our minds too. It seemed like a good idea at the time - internet-enabled widgets that downloaded little snippets of information like weather reports, stock prices and news headlines and displayed them on a digital watch. Unfortunately, the watches were a bit pricey and not much of the technology ever made it across to the UK.
The MSN direct service is still going, however and Microsoft clearly think there is some mileage to be had from their little widgets - they have just announced a technology preview of MSN Direct for Windows Mobile devices.
The tech preview is a free download and should work with any non-touchscreen Windows Mobile device.
Once installed it will use your phone’s data connection to grab updates for your chosen widgets. Widgets can be cycled through using the keypad or joystick and any links within the MSN Direct content (usually to more MSN content) can be opened in Internet Explorer with the click of a button.
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