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KLTraffic, our free Nokia widget!

Posted on the September 24th, 2009 under Widget by Rayson

Tired of getting stuck in KL? How about giving KLTraffic, a  Nokia mobile widget a shot?

So, what’s this widget about? Basically it takes traffic image feeds (provided by ITIS) of various roads in and about Kuala Lumpur. If you’re working in the heart of the city, this will prove to be rather handy!

Work on this widget started right after the Nokia OneConnectedWorld 2009 last week and took us only a couple of days to develop.

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KLTraffic widget screens

If you own a Nokia device, particularly the N97, N97 mini, 5800 & 5530 Xpressmusic or even the brand new Xpressmusic X6, do give this widget a try.

Some improvements are in the pipeline, particularly the ability for users to submit traffic reports. But yeah, we’ll get into that much later on. For the time being if  this proves to be popular, we’ll work on it, otherwise we’ll just jump into a new project since Nokia WRT development is pretty rapid and easy to code.

A little tutorial on how to use this (it’s very straight forward)

1. Click on any of the road names to load their respective traffic feed.
2. Clicking on the double arrow icon will load an overlay over the traffic feed. This way, you’ll know which direction the traffic is heading.
3. Hit the refresh button to get the latest image feed.
4. The widget supports portrait view only.

We’re publishing this in the Ovi Store  and will remain FREE. Show your support by sharing  this widgets with your buddies or drop us a comment below :)

Here’s the widget product page! If you’re looking for the download link … there’s none yet. We’ll link it to the Ovi Store page when it’s approved. If you’d like to give this a try, just drop a comment below.

Update:

It’s up on Ovi Store now! Grab it by going to the KLTraffic widget page here and click on the “Download from Ovi” button.