Quick Byte: New News for iPhone and Android users

Google announced yesterday that is has overhauled the news to cater to iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. With this new overhaul comes a user interface that displays more images, news and their sources. Google also promises “you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find articles and play videos in fewer clicks. If you are an existing Google News reader on desktop, you will find that all of your personalizations are honored in this mobile version too.”

This all comes in 29 different languages with over 70 different versions avaliable.

After testing the new functionality of the mobile version, I was quite impressed how everything was slimmed down and pretty easy to find.

The “Jump To” feature – located in the top right header of each section – appears to be using some internal page links that allows you to quickly find the topic of interest without endless scrolling.

Now all they need to do is integrate a retweet button and users will have the chance to spread the word, at a much more rapid rate.

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2. Kyle Koester says:

   November 20, 2009 at 10:28 am

   Thanks for the heads up, I will have to check this out!

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   November 20, 2009 at 10:38 am

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