Aug 16, 2009 Posted by Saijo George in App Store, News | 4 comments

YomoMedia – RSS feed and podcast application for Windows Mobile

YomoMedia is an application that allows you to get your favorite news feeds, blogs, podcasts, audio and video on demand. It syncs with a web application that allows you to discover new content, manage the content on your mobile device or create custom content.

Initially, I felt as though the mobile application was a little clunky. At first boot, I noticed that it listed many preloaded feeds, not all of them interested me. I instantly deleted a few of the default bundles because the application wouldn’t allow me to personalize them. Then, I discovered how useful YomoMedia really is…

What sets this RSS feed reader and podcast manager apart from the others is the ability to use the web to easily update your feed list. You can also add/edit content straight from the mobile app once you have setup an account via the web and created a bundle. If you use the web app, you’re able to search for your favorite feeds via keywords. Once I rid my free YomoMedia account of the random, preloaded feeds, I was able to customize it to my liking. I quickly created my own bundles with multiple feeds and even added my favorite podcasts with ease. Before I knew it, I was ready to set up the automated update system, which is fantastic.

With YomoMedia, you’re able to manually or automatically update your feeds/podcasts. You can update them all at once or one-by-one and the options menu allows you to do so in great detail.

Now, I can launch YomoMedia before I go to sleep, so my podcasts will already be downloaded and waiting for me in the morning – thanks to scheduled interval updates.

Another innovative feature of the mobile app is the embedded content browser. With other RSS readers, part of the story is revealed and then you have to click a link that slowly launches your default web browser in order to read the rest of the story. YomoMedia has one built in so you can expand on the story of interest right in the application. I have to admit, it’s much more convenient that way.

With all the features of YomoMedia, the developers clearly put in a lot of work to make this one of the best rss readers for Windows Mobile. I will definitely continue using it.

Pros:
- All in one news/media app
- Embedded content browser
- Great interface
- Customizable lists
- Automated update system
- Web app to Sync with Mobile app, add feeds from either
- Quick to update a large volume of feeds
- Option to view memory usage
- Free!

Cons:
- Preloaded content not customizable
- Font size within bundles could be a little larger
- Must sign up in order to download (although it is free)

Disclosure : We had a partnership with YoMo Media at the time the review was done. But plz note that this had no influence on the actual review of the product.

- Saijo George

Tags: podcast, rss reader, yomomedia

4 Responses to “YomoMedia – RSS feed and podcast application for Windows Mobile”

1. Ray Algar says:

   December 23, 2009 at 11:23 am

   I've been using Yomomedia for a few weeks now and really like it. Few set up issues as outlined above, but worth working through these. They have now added a 'post to twitter' feature which allows me to update Twitter from inside Yomomedia (you need to set this feature up on the Yomomedia website first).
   Excellent app' which I now use almost every day.

   Ray Algar

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2. Sim0n_KO says:

   January 29, 2010 at 3:40 am

   this looks really good. I will download and try it today. I will try bestwindowsmobileapps RSS on it

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