Reading the manual of my new cellphone (you can only imagine how much interesting stuff is hidden in manuals) I discovered that the built-in web browser also supports RSS.

After testing it I must admit that in a way it is true, the browser does render RSS feeds, the only problem is that it's treating them just like a bookmarked html pages: you click it, you download it, you see a list of items, you can read a single item. No feed polling, no OPML import, no river of news, basically no nothing. We see a lot of implementations of this kind: done by people who don't use RSS and don't get it, building something that can render xml code, totally missing the point.

At this point I am wondering what kind of feedback all my blogging friends who have received free phones from Nokia gave back.

After switching to Google Reader I don't have a good feed reader for my phone anymore (BlogLines mobile as good, but the desktop counterpart was outdated) and miss reading feeds on my phone. Considering the cost of mobile bandwidth, a centralized service is the way to go (no sense downloading hundreds of feeds to my phone if I'm not going to read them). I guess I'll wait for google to fix their mobile version, they did the best river of news aggregagtor after all.

Tags: Nokia, n73, RSS, RSS Readers