This post was published 4 months 4 days ago. This info might have changed or might have become outdated.

Even though I gave Viigo a quick install-n-try back in April on my AT&T Tilt running WinMo 6.1, I decided to run the gamut of possibilities with this combination RSS reader, podcast, flight info, and news aggregator again but not with improved results.

First, I visited the http://getviigo.com site to download the app but was surprised to find that SkyFire was not triggered to download the application at all. I decided to go for the text route but ended up redirected to the same download page with no prompting to download the app. This is when I decided to open the same link with Pocket Internet Explorer and, sure enough, the app started to download. I also appreciated that the Viigo main site recognized my email from the account I had registered months ago and easily allowed me to consolidate both accounts.

I’ve never seen so many preloaded RSS feeds; there were about fifteen before I deleted them all except for maybe two. I would have appreciated that Viigo have kept my custom selected feeds instead of reloading the defaults during my next session. Adding new feeds was a breeze, and there existing ones were already listed but grayed out. All I had to do was go into a submenu, tap the preexisting feeds, and they were quickly added. One thing I found myself wondering was if or where Viigo was caching anything. The last complication I wanted was for my phone’s limited internal storage to be tapped out when I have a perfectly good memory card to use instead. Not that there was any lack of complications.

For some reason Viigo locked up my phone twice, either while switching to a different submenu or just opening a feed. A soft reset was my only alternative to get my phone to respond again. Again, maybe it’s my phone showing it’s age, but this issue may be solved when the app goes out of beta. The articles populated quickly every time with any embedded photos. Some of the best options to view a full version of the article, view the article in a browser, and tweet an article. One downside was if I viewed a full article I could also view the comments, but there were no embedded links for me to able to comment on the article myself. I would have to go to the article originating site if I want to comment.

A good, quick source for aggregated news on the go, Viigo is a solid free app with more user-friendly capabilities than a lot of other mobile feed readers out there, especially since News Gator Go! RSS Reader went Enterprise. I look forward to the final release!

Until then, you should “live life untethered” and try your hand at Viigo Beta from the main site below.

Source: Viigo