Wireless / Mobile
“Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you” Crowded House
Foreca provides mobile weather services globally. No matter where you are, Foreca's mobile weather service makes it easy to get accurate and up-to-date weather information directly in your mobile phone. For operators mobile weather services are a steady revenue generator. Foreca provides current conditions, satellite images, radar images, and weather forecasts in many different formats and languages.
Weather is the one of the most value added services for people on the move. Foreca wireless weather services are a great content for mobile advertising.
ForecaWeather for Mobile
ForecaWeather is a Symbian application, which provides current conditions, 10 day weather forecasts and various weather animations for more than 80.000 locations world-wide. You can also place 10-day forecasts in your phone's calendar as a memo. Application is designed for S60 3rd edition devices (for example Nokia N- and E-series).
ForecaWeather features the following Foreca mobile produts:
- Current conditions
- Detailed forecast with 6h time-steps
- Long 10 day forecast
- Weather radar (North Europe and USA)
- Temperature forecast map
- Precipitation forecast map
- Symbol map
- Wind forecast map
- Cloudiness forecast map
- Satellite images
Graphical products are available as still images and animations.
Compatibility
ForecaWeather is designed for S60 3rd edition devices. We have tested the Nokia devices below but application may work on other S60 3rd edition devices as well.
Tested Nokia devices: 3250, 5500, 5700 XpressMusic, E60, E61, E61i, E65, E70, E90, N71, N73, N76, N80, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, 6120 classic and 6110 Navigator.
Languages supported: English, German, French, Italian, Greek and Finnish
Click here to download a fully functional trial version of ForecaWeather.
FlashWeather for Mobile
FlashWeather brings Internet weather to mobile phone.
Foreca's FlashWeather is the perfect weather tool in your pocket: it's easy to use and with attractive animated graphics and the latest high-quality forecasts and observations it's the last weather application you're going to need. Using the Adobe's Flash Lite technology for mobile phones FlashWeather delivers loads of weather data packed to modest file sizes.
The FlashWeather features the following Foreca mobile weather products:
- SpotWeather Forecast
- 48 hour forecast graphs with temperature, cloudiness, precipitation and wind
- Current Conditions
- Latest weather observations for the selected locations
- Weather radar
- A live rain radar animation feed (available for selected regions; at the moment Scandinavia and North America)
- Satellite
- A live satellite image animation feed worldwide (depending on application version)
- WeatherMap
- 48 hour forecast for the selected location and surroundings
- Temperature Forecast Map
- 48 hour temperature forecast for the selected location and surroundings
- Precipitation Forecast Map
- 48 hour precipitation forecast for selected location and surroundings
Currently we offer five versions of the application: Europe, North Europe, UK+Ireland, USA and Asia. Country specific and tailored versions are available upon request with short lead times. We offer a flexible licensing model for operators and content aggregators.
Since July 2006 FlashWeather Asia has been included in the bundle pack for the Nokia 6131 distributed in Singapore.
Foreca's previous mobile flash product, SpotWeather, won the Star Application Award at Forum Nokia's Mobile Application Summit in Hong Kong May 2005. On 16th of October, FlashWeather Europe won the Flash category of Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge , a world wide competition with 25,000 euros as first prize.
Mobile Internet - foreca.mobi
Foreca.mobi is a mobile-optimized weather service, which offers 7-day forecast, current conditions and stunning weather animations including radar, satellite and precipitation forecast for all your favorite locations. Foreca.mobi covers both national and international locations.
Foreca.mobi is easy to use - just go to foreca.mobi with your phone's Internet browser. No registration is needed and no extra charges apply (your mobile operator may charge you for the data traffic).
Foreca.mobi provides now also ski reports for US and European resorts!
Service works with most mobile phones, which are equipped with colour display. User interface is available in 15 languages.
SMS and MMS
Traditional SMS and MMS weather services still play an important role, especially in emerging markets. The weather service is one of the most popular value-added services among millions of mobile device users.
Foreca's GSM Spot weather services give you access to fast and easy-to-use weather services. The service includes hundreds of thousands of locations around the world with accurate up-to-date weather forecasts for each locale. The forecasting system has a high geographical resolution which makes it possible to check the weather forecast for specified places like golf courses, seaports, ski centres, holiday resorts etc. New places of special interest can be added with customer's interest.
Foreca's SMS/MMS offering is available in more than 25 languages, the service provides weather forecast for 100.000 locations worldwide.
WidSets
Would you like to have weather forecasts for your handset?
Get your own WidSets.
Foreca’s accurate world wide weather forecasts are also available at www.widsets.com. Sign in and get your Foreca’s weather widget for free in your handset. Please notice that the Foreca WidSets weather service is free. However, you will be charged the data transfer fees. These fees you can check from your mobile operator.
Weather Videos
Foreca weather movies are short automated weather shows ideal for 3G operators wanting some stunning content. Movies include beautiful graphics and 3D effects like fly-thru-rain. Already in commercial use since autumn 2003. Great revenue generator.
About Technology
Most services are fully hosted by Foreca and therefore quick to deploy.