Honestly I have never heard of KeyToss before until Josep pointed out the Version 2 Beta to me. When I checked it out I was quite impressed. It is essentially a mobile portal for your smartphone that gives you quite a bit of functionality tailored to your preferences. Kind of like iGoogle for your Berry even though KeyToss is targeted towards Treo users. Check it out at m.keytoss.com.
Features include:
- News Feed Reader
- Select from the set of existing news sources, or add any RSS or Atom news feed from nearly any source
- Share your feeds with other users, and search for the most popular feeds submitted by others
- Import OPML-format feed lists (exported from most news readers)
- Customize display of news headlines – including number of headlines, display of summaries, and whether to link to mobile-converted versions of the articles
- Select from several mobile format converters
- For now, no marking articles read. I’m not sure people would want to use it that way. We’ll see.
- User Accounts
- You can now configure your mobile settings from your PC. It’s much easier to add feeds from your desktop.
- You no longer lose all your personal settings when Blazer erases your cookies.
- Emails and SMS no longer require captcha
- Note: You need to log in in order to add a new feed, or upload any files.
- Improved UI
- Add, delete, and rearrange order of modules
- Add new pages; the limit is 4 pages, for now
- Use phone keypad to navigate around screen and between pages
*: next module on the page
#: next page
number keys: select pages and modules
- PC/Phone File Transfers
- Upload files from your PC, and download them to your phone
- Convenient way to install apps or other files on your phone
- Files expire in a week
- Limit of 20MB per file
- Stock Quotes Module
- Basic interface for now
- MarketWatch Data Module
Existing features include:
- Sports Scores
- Get the latest in-game scores for your favorite teams
- Available sports include MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA
- (NEW) Scores now link to the new ESPN pages for each team and the box scores for each game
- Weather
- Get 5 day forecast for your location, or any location in the world
- Save multiple locations, and switch between them with one click
- Search Tools
- Initiate searches on any of dozens of websites, including Google, Amazon, IMDb, USPS, yellowpages.com, dictionary.com, and many more
- Automatically do a local search using Google Local, yellowpages.com, or yelp.com, based on your currently selected location
- Mobile Links
- Customize which links appear on your page
- Many links are customized to your location; when you switch locations, the links are automatically updated
Other updates:
- Updated the following search tools: dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, IMDb, yellowpages.com, AOL Search, ARIN WHOIS, Barnes & Noble, and wapedia.
- Updated the following mobile links: hotmail, financial times, sports illustrated, all the ESPN links
- Deleted the Yahoo Music link
Nikolaus Not Registered
Posted: July 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM EST
No home screen icon? I’m trying this out and it’s pretty cool!
Steve Not Registered
Posted: July 29, 2008 at 4:32 PM EST
Sure….show the Mets/Cardinals score…should have shown the 14 inning score!
GO CARDS!