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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
And you can make fun of the stupid iPhone apps, but plenty of them are useful and beautifully executed, like the ones that find the movies near you and link them to IMDB reviews. By comparison, very few polished consumer-oriented special-purpose apps have been developed for Maemo over the past four years.
So someone took the igoogle (or other similar) gadget that anyone can use in a webbrowser and made it into an app? I have an n800, but I have a external bluetooth gps receiver, so I can just grab my gps coordinates(from the status bar app) and past them into location on igoogle's movies near me gadget, and viola it shows me movies near my gps location, or I could just use zip code or city if I didn't want to bother with exact location, which I rarely need.

So sure one could "polish up" this procedure, but the question for me would be why. It's a rarity that I would actually use it and need gps data, I would have to make sure I have that external app installed, instead of just using a regular webpage. Also with igoogle I can have a bunch of usefull gadgets on one screen.
 

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