I mentioned in my Loading the Hermes post that I have been using a beta version of Spb Insight RSS Reader. Today I just got notification that the release version is available. Check out the screen shots here.

“Spb Insight is a news reading Pocket PC program that gives a rich offline experience along with an easy interface and full RSS/Atom support. With Spb Insight you’ll always have all the latest information, right in your pocket, with images and whole articles, yet fully optimized for small screen viewing.”

If you have been looking for a way to carry content and pictures with you on your WM5 PDA, then I think you will like it. Once it has a Today Screen plug-in, it will really rock!

According to the release: “October 17, 2006 – Spb Software House, the leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb Insight – a new Pocket PC News Reader which provides full-text articles with pictures for handy and fast offline reading.

Throughout the day we all have those many periods of time that are too short to be useful but too long to be wasted. Examples could be standing in line or waiting at the airport. A Pocket PC can be used to fill these intervals of time with reading books, or playing small games, etc. How about the news? Typical news web pages aren’t designed for small Pocket PC screens and can take minutes to download. RSS readers help in this situation, but usually provide only summaries and links to original articles, which bring us back to online browsing.

Spb Insight was designed to overcome these shortcomings. Besides being a powerful Pocket PC RSS reader, Spb Insight provides full article texts instead of typical RSS article summaries. Original article web pages are specifically optimized for Pocket PC screens using unique Spb Insight channel technology.”