iPhone News App – USA Today

Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under iPhone News Apps

I can’t stand the USA Today website, greeted by the full page adverts is  there anyone out there who sits and waits for the five seconds to pass without clicking Continue Reading?

Thankfully they have a good selection of RSS feeds and with their iPhone app I have got one more way to read their content without ever having to visit the site.

The USA Today iPhone app is a classic example of how to transport content to the Jesus-phone. All of your news sections are there Latest / Money / Sports / Life / Tech / Travel on a slider bar under the logo and a local weather forecast, with the location taken from your phone.

On each article images can be enlarged and there is a handy ‘Share Article’ button which lets you email, text or twitter it to contacts in your phone directory. But there is no integration with  the likes of Digg, Yahoo! Buzz or Reddit, all of which are available on the main site.

Buttons in the dock take you to sports results (Not real sports like football and rugby but their us alternatives, so NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL are all their) Weather, Pictures and Snapshots.

Pictures gives a nice tabbed selection of the days Sport, Celeb, Science and Travel images. Photographs appear in a grid and enlarge to fill the screen on a single tap, a further touch bring up a couple of paragraph caption.

Snapshots is a online voting tool of daily polls, results can be seen instantly and filtered by location but they are also turned into funky graphics at the end of the day.

USA Today App – iTunes Link

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