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WeatherPro HD – The Popular Weather App Now Available for Tablets
Tested version: 1.6.1
Latest version: 2.1
Requires Android: from 3.0
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Summary
Weather frogs, ground hogs—they’re nice, some might even argue there’s something endearing – albeit not exactly scientifically accurate – about a small animal predicting the weather, but let’s face it, it does strike as somewhat old fashioned. And I don’t know about you, but I hardly ever watch telly anymore, so televised weather forecasts have more or less become obsolete in my world. As an alternative, I’ve been using the Android application WeatherPro for some time now. WeatherPro HD is the version optimized for tablets of said app. If you’ve read Yan's review of WeatherPro you will know that IMO it is the ultimate weather forecast application—so how does the tablet version fare? Find out more about our App of the Week in today’s review!
Features & Use
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Test device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Android version: 3.1
15,48 MB is sizeable, but bear in mind that the largest private European weather service MeteoGroup's application does harbour a good amount of features.
There’s enough information here to keep track of the weather over a week in advance, and it gets updated every 3(!) seconds. Weather forecasts are provided for over two million locations worldwide. It also provides details regarding daily sunshine duration, windchill factor and UV index. Sunrise and set are also indicated.
Animated radar and satellite images display visuals for most of Europe and the USA; European visuals are updated every 15 minutes, the rest of the world every three hours.
The app can be accessed via shortcut or three sizes of widgets (2x1, 4x1 and 4x2). Oh, and WeatherPro HD is available in 12 languages, it is App2SD compatible and comes with live wallpapers that adapt to the current weather situation. Unfortunately, images are not displayed fully in landscape mode.
Screen & Controls
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If you’ve read my lovely colleague Yan’s review of WeatherPro you will know that quite a few members of the AndroidPIT crew have been very satisfied with the app—which is why this section is especially relevant in terms of this review, seeing as this is where it becomes apparent whether the app has been well optimised for tablet use. And it has: there’s a great overview and using the app is a real treat.
WeatherPro HD immediately susses out the user’s location (no need to enter a location manually). A classic weather tab is displayed containing an overview displaying a 7-day weather forecast (date, time) as well as visuals for upcoming meteorological developments such as highest and lowest temperatures, wind speed, chance and amount of precipitation (in percent/millimeters), air pressure (Hektopaskal), sunshine duration (in minutes) and humidity (in percent).
If you want to look up the weather in other locations use the search button (upper right corner), and save your favourite locations for quick and easy future access.
A thermometer displays current updates for the parameters listed above. The display works well in portrait and landscape mode.
Tabs for all the most important functions (weather, radar satellite, settings) allow fast access to the app’s features. The radar and satellite visuals are great.
Hit settings to look up news or information related to the application or change weather units. The following options are available:
• Temperature: °C and °F
• Wind: km/h, kn, ms, Bft, mph
• Air pressure: hPa, inHg, Torr
• Precipitation: in, mm
I would love to see an option to change the widget’s colour like with WeatherPro.
Bottom line:
If your are looking for in-depth weather related updates and information for tablet use look no further: WeatherPro HD is the app for you. Controls are very easy and the app is well designed. Aside from great aesthetics this app is also – and most importantly – very accurate when it comes to current and upcoming weather forecasts. Whilst predicting the weather is never 100% accurate, this app will definitely help you decide whether or not to grab an umbrella before leaving the house, or donning that giant fur coat you inherited from your great-aunt.
Speed & Stability
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It’s very smooth sailing indeed with WeatherPro HD. The tablet version runs just as fluidly as the smartphone one, including the permanent weather updates.
Price/Performance Ratio
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The version for smartphones is available for 2,99 EUR; WeatherPro HD on the other hand costs 3,99 EUR. Quite a price tag for an app that has ‘only’ been optimised for tablet use. That said, the app is well worth it for tablet owners who wish to be well informed about the weather, seeing as once you’ve installed WeatherPro HD on your device my guess is that you won’t be changing to any other service any time soon.
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Market Comments
aglees, Apr 19, 2012
Great tablet & premium update Nice work bringing this inline with the iOS competition. Ticks all the boxes. Maybe a nice super detailed screen for a given day would be nice?
Brad, Apr 15, 2012
A must have app for anyone who is outside often Very easy app – great weather detail – love the widget that comes with it!
Paperless Productions, Mar 29, 2012
Rip Off don't buy Radar and satellite do not work at all. WARNING you cannot get a refund. Do not trust this app it is a scam....
Daniel, Feb 26, 2012
Inaccurate forecasts for Melbourne, Australia I have been using this app for several months. While I like the design, the data For the forecasts is just inaccurate and basically useless. Today there are heavy rainfalls going on (up to 40mm) and the app displays cloudy and no rain. Recommend using weatherzone, which uses accurate BOM data for its forcasts in Australia.
Chrétien, Feb 11, 2012
Version 2.0 Hope that there will be soon a update to the 2.0 version, so also the premium functionality will be available for hte HD app?
Jasper, Jan 23, 2012
No widgets Just bought the app. Looks nice ans seems to work ok, but where are the widgets? Can't find them
Tonny Vanmunster, Jan 22, 2012
Excellent app I got to know this app through my iPhone. It is an excellent app on that device, and the same applies to the Android version. Very nice GUI, very good prediction quality. Very complete forecast data.
Invalid Reference, Dec 18, 2011
Excellent predictions, mediocre design. I have bought both the LD and HD versions. Predictions are best-in-class, impeccable. Sadly the design is mediocre at best. Widgets are the same as in the LD version, annoy with a permanently visible logo and lack customisability. I am using this on a daily basis but please please please redesign the widgets!
Alastair, Dec 16, 2011
Not compatible with Galaxy Nexus I read the text that this is for tablets, however since the Market informed me this was compatible with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus I bought it. Sadly although it ran, clearly the pages cannot adapt themselves to smaller screens and much of the content was unreadable. Refunded and uninstalled.
Martin, Dec 11, 2011
Weather Pro HD OK, disappointed did not include detailed radar and sat views of usa
Samti, Nov 30, 2011
More details in one view I didn't know that there was a HD version of WeatherPro available so I was more then delighted to see the new screen on my Xoom. Loads of informations on just one side. Runs smoothly and without any crashes and it is a must have for every weathergeek that owns a tablet. The only thing that didn't quite work was the life wallpaper because it was too small for my screen and left a black stripe on one site. :-)
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