RSS feeds for mobile devices

For the longest amount of time, I've been looking for a feedreader to install on my Palm Zire 71. I tried various feedreaders for Palm. I wanted to try out the FeedBurner feedreader for Palm but unfortunately it requires Websphere Micro Edition which only runs on Palm Tungsten C, Palm Treo 600, Palm Z22, Palm Tungsten T. So that really sucks. I tried Vagabond and AvantBlog. AvantBlog sounded pretty good, because it can sync Blogger blogs and I have this blog using Blogger. It's just an AvantGo channel that you add to AvantGo which you can download on Palm or any other mobile device that supports AvantGo. However, you have to remember to sync the channel. I tried doing this, but then it didn't sync properly, and I had to sync again from the Palm and HotSync back to my computer. It's not foolproof though, sometimes it does work and sometimes it doesn't. So, I got sick and tired and I don't use that anymore.

Then I was browsing my AvantGo channels on my Palm when I saw that AvantGo now supports RSS feeds with AvantGo RSS. I thought this is great, because I use AvantGo all the time to read my news from the web offline on my Palm. So I tried it out and synced one of the feeds I subscribe to. I think I didn't do it properly, because not all the posts showed and it was difficult to scroll. Also, AvantGo RSS also supports creating an AvantGo RSS channel for your blog. So, that's what I am going to do next and put that on this blog.

Now, I just found out through Google search on feed reader for Palm that there is a standalone Palm feed reader application called Quick News for PalmOS. So maybe I'll try that and see how that goes. Will keep you updated.

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