That being said, I find myself leaving my Wifi adapter on in my Pocket PC when I’m using NewsGator Go! so that I can see the images that are included in my feeds. This unnecessarily wears down my battery, and I can’t do this when I’m not near an open access point (or one I have access to).

I would think you would want to make it configurable – i.e. yes download images or no, do not. Since large storage cards are becoming more and more common, storage space for the images shouldn’t be a problem, and if they are, users could choose not to do it.

My one frustration with the NewsGator suite right now is that FeedDemon still doesn’t support clippings. I can’t wait for the new version of Go! and it’s fun to watch FeedDemon improve every few days.

Thanks for making such a useful product!

Thanks – your input is appreciated and eye opening as always! It just works out so well for all when the actual users have a direct impact on the end product. Very cool!

In this river of news mode, will you be able to read the full content of each article, or will you need to click headlines to read each one? I think the river of news concept as applied to a mobile device would imply an attempt to minimize clicks – I mean taps.

In my perfect world, the river of news would work as you described, showing me a river or tributary based on where in the tree I clicked. But it would take a page from Google Reader, and load the first 10 or 20 articles in full, so that as I scrolled down, I could read them. As they go by on the window, they would be marked as read, and there would be a hotkey to jump to the next post if the one I’m reading is boring. As I neared the end of the posts that were pre-loaded, the next set of posts would be loaded into memory (and the previous set would be unloaded, I assume). In that manner, I could simply click on the top of my tree, and read as far as I could get, and only the stuff I actually saw would get marked as read. All of this would be done with one hand.

Make sense?

Of course I realize this is a tall order. I just think it describes the best possible “river of news” use case.

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