Software platform – Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.
 
Me on the quest of finding a real good RSS reader for my PDA last few days, after Avantgo (Google It) no longer satisfy my hunger of information reading >_<. Finally after a night of searching and installing various RSS reader, me came across a freeware pRSSreader (Google It), even better than some shareware! The main strenght of this RSS reader is it’s customization.

Features

From the official website

Small

pRSSreader is very small application. It takes about 300 KB of your PDA memory.

Formats

pRSSreader can handle many versions of feeds: RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0, RDF 1.0 and Atom 0.3.

Site Manager

Site manager allows you to subscribe to sites you want to read. You can group your feeds into folders and you can set up feed options such as displaying on the Today screen, caching options, etc.

Items

pRSSreader can mark feed items with three states: new, unread and read. Those states are preserved between starts of pRSSreader. You can sort the feed items or you can hide already read items.

Sequential reading

Once you start reading, you can read from the start to the end without getting back to the main window to switch between items or even feeds.

Customizable

pRSSreader is quite customizable. You can set up appearance of reading dialog, change font sizes, enable clear type, set the location of cache or an external browser for viewing the whole messages and many more.

Caching

pRSSreader have quite powerful caching abilities, it can cache images included within feeds, enclosures and it can also cache online pages for offline browsing.

Import/Export

You can import your OPML file from the Internet or from your local file system as well. pRSSreader can also export your OPML file.

Updates

You can update your feeds manually or you can also let pRSSreader to update your feeds automatically. Then they will be updated periodically (you can select the update interval).

Today screen

pRSSreader has integration with Today screen. It can simply display the number of new/unread items or can cycle feed names or even items from a feed. The plugin is compatible with Pocket Breeze.

Summary View

The summary view shows you the number of new/unread/total items in your feeds. You can also use it to switch between your feeds very quickly.

Planned features

  • Showing news that match predefined keywords
  • Support for code pages

 

Such a great application, too bad it doesn’t include some default news channel. We need to find the news channel and enter it to pRSSreader for ourselves before start reading >_<

And it works well with MSN Spaces RSS feeds too! Here’s mine –

http://spaces.msn.com/pip017/feed.rss

 

Current version (1.2.0) has a known bug – cant register some article as "read" eventhough me read it. And it annoyed me when it tries to connect to the internet if something on an article is not saved/cached, mostly is images on the article.