Supporting the Samsung IQ 2009 widget competition, this Technical paper by Richard Bloor looks at how two different companies have used mobile widgets on S60 to evolve their mobile apps and services.

As both Gypsii and MyWeather have discovered, there are many reasons why widgets make good business sense.

Widgets can be used alongside your existing services and mobile clients, whether to complement a web service or mobilise a new service, or to add new features to mobile clients, and can help you to gain time-to-market and cross-platform advantage when designing new mobile clients.