Get news to your iPhone with iNewz

Friday, February 27, 2009, 7:46
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inews Are you a compulsive news headlines buff? Do you enjoy browsing RSS feeds? Do you possess an iPhone or iPod touch? If your answer to these three questions is a yes, then you might consider downloading iNewz for your iPhone or iPod touch. The cost of the application is a mere $2. The application iNewz is a rich source of mainstream media. It boasts of a wide-ranging and diverse content. But you may not like its simple look and poor offline reading support. Unlike Newsstand or Byline, iNewz is not a full-fledged RSS reader. It will not allow you to subscribe to your favourite blogs as you can with Google Reader or other RSS reader applications. It will rather function as an aggregator with an RSS interface. It will let you follow up to 450 feeds from 65 domestic and foreign newspapers and media sources. The sources under this application include the New York Times, Telegraph of London, Chicago Tribune, Asia Times, and Toronto Sun.

iNewz displays everything like a traditional newspaper with headline news at the top. This is followed by foreign news, politics, business, technology, and sports. The application is capable of feeding stories from all of your subscriptions into each section. It can let you instantly jump from BBC to the CNN to the New York Times or the Asia Times, all with a few taps. To read a full article, just tap on the headline and iNewz launches an integrated browser. The application supports landscape viewing making your zoomed text much easier to read. The application lets you bookmark any story for reference.

The application offers real trouble with offline reading. The application can download feeds of stories, but lets you only read the summaries offline. These summaries consist of a mere lead paragraph of the stories. This means that if you have a working Wi-Fi, EDGE or 3G connection, it is only then that this application will work for you in the desired way. Overall, iNewz is a feature rich application that is worth a download.