Accuweather for WP7 - A closer look

The other day the official Accuweather.com app was released over at the Windows Phone Market place. Nosotros briefly touched on it in the announcement mail and now that we've had some time to tinker with the latest weather condition app, we'll have a closer look at things.

Accuweather for Windows Telephone provides you with:

Ccurrent weather conditions
A ten day forecast
Hourly forecasts
Weather maps (Bing maps with blithe radar and satellite views)
Lifestyle forecasts, and video clips from Accuweather.com

You lot can preset up to seven locations in add-on to your current location. Changing locations is simple in that all yous need to do is tap on the temperature banner at the acme of the screen and your listed locations appear. If you need to pull upwards weather information for your current location only tap the cross-hair emblem on the current conditions screen. Accuweather will and then use your Windows Phone'due south location services to identify your location.

Accuweather for Windows Telephone has live tile support that will display your location, current temperature and whatsoever weather alerts. The live tile updated immediately when running on my HD7S but has yet to update on my Samsung Focus. Settings are express to turning on/off your live tile and location services every bit well as choosing Purple or Metric readings.

There are a couple of stand out features to Accuweather. RealFeel Temperature takes into account various weather conditions to reflect what the outside temperature feels similar. Accuweather too has a carmine assertion mark that appears on the Current Atmospheric condition page and Live Tile to alert you lot of whatever weather condition alerts for your area. Just tap on the red square and the app volition pull upwardly the details on the alarm. Lastly, Accuweather has a Lifestyles section that will give you a summary of how the atmospheric condition matches up with a wide variety of outdoor activities and conditions.

For the near part, Accuweather is an impressive conditions app for your Windows Telephone. I would have liked a few choices for the app'south background to give Accuweather a little more than color. The app ran stable but at times, information technology was a little laggy. For example, I could tap the Lifestyles or Locations buttons several times earlier the page would load.

So, how does Accuweather compare to other weather apps for your Windows Phone? I'yard not ready to give information technology the edge over the Weather Channel and information technology may be a notch improve than the Weatherbug app. I approximate we'll need to practice a round upward eventually comparing the available Windows Phone weather condition apps.

Regardless of how Accuweather measures ups to existing weather condition apps, it'due south worth a attempt. You tin can download your free copy of Accuweather for Windows Phone hither (opens Zune) at the Marketplace.

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