Good mobile news Apps
Posted on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 by Carolina in Industry News with No Comments
We’re all being told that mobile is the next big thing for news, but what does it mean to have a good mobile news application?
Just as an online news site is a lot more than a newspaper online, a mobile news application is a lot more than news stories on a small screen. The better iPhone news apps integrate multimedia, social features, personalization, and push notifications.
Not all apps get even the basics right. But a few are pushing the boundaries of what mobile news can be, with innovative new features such as info-graphic displays of hot stories, or integrated playlists for multimedia.
Click here for a roundup of 14 iPhone news offerings:
NYTimes
Daily Zeitgeist
NPR News
AP Mobile
Thompson-Reuters News Pro
TIME Mobile
The Guardian
CNN Mobile
The Independent
Al Jazeera English Live
Jakarta Globe
Fluent News Reader
BBC News Mobile
The Huffington Post
(Original post by Jonathan Stray on onlinejournalismblog.com).
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