Weather Hound for Windows Phone 8, a simple approach to the weather

Another week here at Windows Telephone Fundamental and another Windows Phone conditions app has caught our attention. This calendar week, information technology is the Windows Phone 8 conditions app Weather Hound.

Weather Hound is a simple weather app that delivers the basics along with Live Tile and lockscreen support. There is not a lot of flash to Weather Hound merely it covers the core weather information rather nicely.

The main pages for Weather Hound offer:

A summary of your current weather conditions that includes the current temperature, precipitation forecast, wind speed and direction, and a atmospheric condition summary for the solar day and week.
An hourly breakup as to what to await from the conditions that covers the temperature, atmospheric precipitation, wind and a full general weather description.
A daily folio that offers a seven-twenty-four hour period atmospheric condition forecast that covers the general conditions, expected high and depression temperature, atmospheric precipitation forecast, and wind speed.

Your location can be set based on your Windows Phone location services or you tin can plant a forecast location manually in the settings. Weather condition Hound only supports 1 weather location and one of my nits with the weather app is that the forecast location is not displayed on the main pages. I can live with Weather Hound just supporting one location but at to the lowest degree show me which location I am using and to the developer's credit, having your location displayed is in the works.

Up nether the three-dot carte du jour y'all will find options to refresh the weather information, access Atmospheric condition Hound'south settings, view the About Page, admission the Help/Support spider web pages, view any available in-app purchases, and rate/review the app over in the Windows Phone Store.

Atmospheric condition Hound's settings cover your display settings such as display units, 24-hour clock, and location services. If you turn off the location services, yous will demand to select a forecast location manually. Weather Hound has support for both dark and light themes but not contained of your Windows Phone theme setting.

Yous too have a lockscreen settings page which covers data refresh rate, choosing you lockscreen wallpaper (Bing images or your local image), and what to brandish on the lockscreen. Weather Hound will deliver the current weather to your lockscreen but you tin can also add a iii-day forecast and the update time to the mix.

While lockscreen support is overnice, Live Tile support is a picayune on the weak side though. Weather Hounds Alive Tile will display the electric current temperature and conditions on the front side with the temperature highs/lows, rainfall and current of air displayed on the back side of the tile. Alive Tile sizes are limited to small and medium with wide tile support is in the works.

The in-app buy is to add subway information for the New York Urban center MTA ($.99). It adds subway status to the main weather forecast pages every bit well as the lockscreen.

In a crowded field of Windows Telephone weather apps, Weather Hound has potential. It covers the basics in an attractive, simplistic manner just I could not help but feel the app was a work in progress. Based on the developer'southward website we will run across additions such equally wide tile back up, location display, and more utilize of theme and emphasis colors. All of which will help Weather Hound maybe stand up out from the atmospheric condition app crowd. Add radar and Atmospheric condition Hound might find itself towards the top of the list.

I like the clean advent of Weather Hound with both the app itself and lockscreen back up. Overall, Weather condition Hound is a good pick if you are looking for a unproblematic, informative weather app for your Windows Phone 8 device.

Currently Weather Hound does not have a trial version (should change presently though) and is only bachelor for Windows Phone 8 devices. The full app will set you dorsum $.99 and y'all tin detect your copy of Weather condition Hound hither in the Windows Phone Store.

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