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yr.no for the iPhone released

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3 years ago
by frankps in

yr.no on iPhone

Yet another Norwegian iPhone application has been released, and also this one is a must-have tool for us Norwegians. I have often found iPhone’s included weather application to not be to accurate for places in Europe, especially in Norway.

I first reported about yr.no for iPhone a week ago. The application is developed in a cooperation between the software house apps AS, NRK and Meteorologisk institutt, and it will replace nWeather, developed by the same software house.

Installation

For the first time I noticed that searching for an application on iTunes Music Store did not work, so I had to navigate to the Weather section to find the application. I guess that is something Apple will soon fix, but for now, here is the direct link to the application: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300709016&mt=8 .

The installation itself was straight forward, but others have reported that they had to reboot their iPhone before the program was available in the menu.

yr.no on iPhoneFeatures

The Yr.no for the iPhone is very well developed is in my opinion.  The application has in good Yr-tradition the Search field centrally located on the top of the application window. In addition, you will have the opportunity to use the built-in GPS to find the forecast for the place you are on, view the four last visited places on the front (with a 3-days forecast for weather and temperature) and get a notification for 11 thousand places in Norway and the world. nWeather only had 2 147 Norwegian places (cities, towns and villages).

Sadly, the town that my grandmother lives in, Mindszent, is not one of them. Budapest and Szeged on the other hand are included. On the second screenshot you see a more detailed view of your place of interest. The three days included in the forecast forecast are devided in four: Night, morning, afternoon and evening)

If you rotate the phone you will get an even more detailed 48 hours forecast:

yr.no on iPhone

YR.NO – iPhone app

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3 years ago
by frankps in ,

A new Norwegian iPhone application is about to hit the AppStore. The application s i is a mobile service by Meteorologisk Institutt and NRK, based on their very popular web-based weather service, yr.no. The service is already available for mobile phones, and the software house Polleo made a free unofficial version for the iPhone, nWeather.

nWeather had 2 147 Norwegian places (cities, towns and villages) connected with weather data from yr.no. At first that might sound impressive, but it is actually only a small fraction of the information available through yr.no! The weather service contains information from 700.000 places in Norway and 6.5 million places abroad. For instance, also my weather information from my mom’s hometown, Mindszent.

I was therefor quite so excited to read that NRK and Meteorologisk Institutt were working together with the software house apps, to create a more or less “fully working” yr.no application for the iPhone. Yr for the iPhone will have the search field on the top of the application window, where you can search for information from 11 thousand places in Norway and the world. You will also have the opportunity to use the built-in GPS to get the weather forecast from where you are now. It all sounds impressive, it’s just that I don’t understand why the application comes with the limitation of 11.000 places. The mobile phone version of the web site doesn’t come with the same limitation! I hoped this could be the perfect application for people hiking up in the mountains. I have so often used yr.no to decide if I should take with me rain clothes when out biking, after having watched how the weather will change from hour to hour.

Look for a review when the application is available on the AppStore.

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