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Nokia rolling WidSets into Ovi Store
If you want to talk widgets, Nokia's been rocking its Java-based, platform-agnostic WidSets project for years now, offering a wide variety of bite-sized apps, games, and feeds that work on a whole bunch of phones from all sorts of manufacturers. It's not going away, but Nokia has now announced that the initiative is being rolled into the Ovi Store alongside MOSH (and the notorious Download! app S60 owners are all too familiar with). It makes a lot of sense for Nokia to finally be consolidating a lot of its offerings into Ovi, but here's our concern: with WidSets going into the Nokia-centric Ovi ecosystem, will it entirely lose the platform independence that helped make it great?[Via All About Symbian]
WidSets 2.0 goes gold
Nokia's open widget platform just got a little better this week with the official release of WidSets 2.0, which had previously been in public beta. Notably, the new version seems to be quite a bit snappier, offers the ability to rearrange widgets right from the device instead of having to do it from WidSets' website (pictured), and sports a tighter marriage with its host phone by allowing calls and browser windows to be initiated from the client. For those who haven't tried it, it's worth having a go -- it's compatible with all sorts of phones, both Nokia and otherwise -- because let's be honest, who doesn't want an Engadget Mobile widget in their pocket?[Via All About Symbian]
WidSets comes out of beta
Nokia's versatile widget platform, WidSets, has come out of beta (although they've had boatloads of users and a solid offering for months now, so calling it "beta" may have been a bit of stretch anyway) with a refreshed look. The headlining feature seems to be the pictured "Explore" feature, which uses Flash to present you with a crazy web to drill down to the widgets that might (or might not) interest you. It's free, it works on a lot of phones, and it's cool -- so now that the ominous "beta" label is officially gone, y'all may as well check it out, no?
