How to get the weather on your Treo

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Overview

As a Treo owner, Palm OS or WM, you already know that you've practically got the world in your hand with this great device. You've got your phone, your calendar, address book, tasks, memos, games, ebooks, music, videos, camera and photos, plus the web. So it shouldn't be any surprise that you can also check the weather on your Treo.

Who doesn't want to know what the weather is going to be like? Especially if you're going to be venturing outside for any given length of time. With your Treo, you've got a mobile weather station right in your pocket. (Or handbag, right ladies?) Sure, you can check the weather report on tv or your radio if you're at home. But how cool that you can check the weather no matter where you are with your Treo. Well, "anywhere" in most cases if you're using a program in which you're getting weather via a data plan and you're in an area with a signal.

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Weather Programs

Many weather programs get the weather forecast via the web, but there are some like 4cast by ShSh software that can work without wireless connectivity on your device. 4cast downloads weather information from weather.yahoo.com and then you simply hotsync your Treo with your PC, which gets the information via the internet, and you get your weather forecast. With 4cast, you get the Today and the next 4 day’s weather, plus radar images, weather alerts, and the detailed forecast. 4cast can also be used as a plugin for 2day, DateBk6 and ZLauncher. 4cast is a very nice program and is only $9.95.

One of the newer weather apps that does require a data connection is TreoWeather by GX5. TreoWeather is a simple but beautiful weather program that looks great on a Treo. TreoWeather has some nice features such as a "mini mode", ability to add up to 8 cities, and the ability to change the background picture and font colors. TreoWeather, like 4cast, also retrieves data via yahoo, but you have the ability to update the information via your Treo's web browser. TreoWeather is $9.95.

SBSH PocketWeather costs $9.95 also and is a Pocket PC/Windows Mobile program. PocketWeather lets you get weather reports directly on your Today screen and automatically monitors the weather in up to six different locations world wide and switch between them on the Today screen.

Handy Weather for Pocket PC/ Windows Mobile and Palm OS is a weather program by Paragon Software.

With Handy Weather, "All you need is Internet connectability to get weather news and forecast for 40 000+ preset cities worldwide and for any arbitrary location by coordinates (latitude and longitude). No more complicated menus to scroll through to find the info you need. Just add Handy Weather to your Today screen and enjoy exact weather forecast."

Handy Weather requirments state, To get weather forecast you should have enabled Internet connection. Handy Weather supports different Internet connections: GPRS, Wi-Fi or Internet connection from your Desktop computer with help of ActiveSync program. Handy Weather is $14.95.

Spb Weather, also selling for $14.95, is a weather program for Pocket PC/Windows Mobile. Spb Weather is a powerful weather Today plug-in. You can customize weather views, skins and even weather forecast data sources. Spb Pocket Plus users can save space on their Today screens running Spb Weather in a form of a separate tab.

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Free Weather Programs

There are also some free weather programs that you can get for your Treo. Below are some of them:

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