Google Reader Android/iPhone WebApp Website (Mostly) Works in BlackBerry Browser
Google has yet to release a BlackBerry client application for Google Reader and has left many users to rely on their simplified WAP website to read articles. Joe did some digging and found that with OS 4.6+ browsers he was able to use the Android and iPhone optimized WebApp website to dynamically render Google Reader.
He did this by simply creating a bookmark to www.google.com/reader/i/ and setting it to enable JavaScript for that bookmark. You don’t even need to change the browser ID. Its not the most elegant solution and has some caveats but it does work. Stories load dynamically when you click on them and the content and images load inline without reloading the page. The downside is that stories “read/unread” status is not synchronized for some reason and sometimes pictures do not load properly.
Still this is pretty cool! Hopefully we can get Google to tweak this a little to work properly on the BlackBerry browser. Or better yet they should get off their lazy @$$e$ and release a BlackBerry client for Google Reader.
Let us know how it works for you!
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