Last week the popular mobile widget site Plusmo announced that it will be extending its widget service to the iPhone. Plusmo is home to more than 20,000 mobile widgets that run the gamut from traffic reports to games to live sport updates. Most of these widgets have been user created and it’s easy to customize your own widgets.
This free service offers a customizable app portal for iPhone users. You can also create your own widgets out of useful websites, XML/RSS based sources including news feeds as well as professional media, and user generated content such as blogs, photos and videos, and other Web 2.0 content.
You can add widgets and customize the portal from your iPhone or from your desktop. Everything uploads in real time so you don’t have to wait for your phone to update your new widgets. The service even recommends widgets based on your location (which it automatically knows…it kinda freaked me out).
Plusmo has gotten lots of accolades for being awesome. And it really is if you need instant access to RSS feeds and apps. There are so many widgets available and more coming all the time that it’s possible that Plusmo could provide all your widget needs. It provides feeds in an easy to read iPhone interface and even the icons look like they were designed by Apple.
Any way you slice it, Plusmo’s mobile widget service (which works with most Java phones including Symbian devices) is pretty neat-o.